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o Ma EH IK T8AG9SB IB 1 Regional Edition Medford 16 Pages atfield Blasts Thornton or 'Seeking Headlines' Governor Claims Tardy Opi linions Endanger State State Land Board Waiting Decisions Salem IUPD Gov. Mark Hatfield Monday charged At torney General Robert Y. Thornton with seeking "head lines" in Washington, D.C. over the post office case and endangering two Oregon in dustrial developments because of tardy legal opinions. It was a fresh round in the feud between the two. Hatfield is chairman of the State Land Board and the board is waiting for Thorn ton's opinions on two pro posals. Hatfield said the delay on one of them is jeopardizing a request by International Pa per Co. to cross public land on the Oregon coast for a new pulp plant at Gardiner. This means a payroll of 1,000 men, the governor, said. The other dplnion has to do with a request .'by' tin ,bJl;,CQm pany to lease lands m.Western' Oregon for oil exploration. Details of the proposals are secret but the company is presumed to be Humble Oil. Hatfield said the requests were first made " known to Thornton Nov. 3 and a formal request was forwarded Nov. 10. ' Thornton replied that he has been "working hard to have the regional post office for Portland while he (Hat field) was off in South Amer ica on a safari." Thornton called a news con ference Monday afternoon and announced the state's suit against transfer of regional post office headquarters from Portland to Seattle will come up in Washington in from three to six weeks. Thornton said if the state wins' the case, headquarters would be moved back. Judge Wimberly Dies at Roseburg Roseburg -IUPD- Judge Carl E. Wimberly, who served for 24 years on the Circuit Court bench here, died today after a long illness. He was 73 years old. Wimberly, who retired in 1959, was elected as circuit judge in 1934. Survivors include his wid ow, Leila; two sons, Carl Jr., Medford, and Leland K., Rose burg, and a daughter, Mrs. Robert J. Healy of West Los Angeles, Calif. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 3 p.m. at Long and Orr Mortuary here. "We Extend Our Hand To All Still Struggling Under Colonialism" MEDFORD, OREGON, CHARRED BED Harold Von 'Vfcus.-: burned to death this Wms&mm small one-room house in Medford. Firemen Mid he apparently fell asleep while smok- 9th Grade Textbook Attack at Hearing Salem - IUPD - The ninth grade textbook "Adventures for Today" came under heavy fire today at a public hearing conducted here by the State Textbook commission. About 55 persons, most of them from the Portland area, attended the hearing. Mrs. James Willock of Ti- gard was the first person to speak and she challenged the volume on two points, some of its material and some of the authors. Stories in the text criticized included "The Restless Ones" by Leslie W a 1 1 e r; "Pyg malion" by Frank B. Gil breath Jr. and Ernestine Gil breath Carey; "I Can't Breathe" by Ring Lardner; "The Heart" by Louis Unter meyer; and "Osculation" by Henry Harrison. Mrs. Willock said "we par ents try to guide and mold our children's thinking" on early dating, hazard o going steady, and "the alarming in crease in teen-age pregnancies and marriages." ' "What a shock to us to pick up their literature textbook and find they are being given a different concept through Tribune TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1960 Stein Jr., 35 ing. The bed on which Von Stein's body was found when firemen arrived at the scene is shown above. morning in a School Under trash in the classroom," she said. Dr. Lloyd Millhollen of Eu gene, chairman of the commis sion, said the state has a con tract with the publisher of the book until 1963 and the book "cannot legally be removed from the approved list." Millollen said the commis sion does not read every ap proved text but every book is read by a regional network of committees made up of teachers and other educators. The books are in turn screen ed by the commission. He said he did not believe that although a book had a few parts that were objection able that the entire volume should be discarded. No New Ideas In Red Manifesto Moscow UPIt International Communism today presented a tougher and more self-assured front to the rest of the world despite its proclaimed wish to co-exist with the West in peace. The 1960 manifesto made public Monday night took a more aggressive attitude to ward the West - and the Uni ted States in particular - than did the last manifesto issued in 1957. Each paragraph of the 20,-000-word document was care fully worked out at the recent Communist summit meeting of leaders from 81 national Communist parties behind the Kremlin walls. Much of the wording was identical to the 1957 docu ment and nt one basic new idea was introduced. But there were new refinements and degrees of emphasis. Thornfon To Request Funds for Prevention Salem-flJPD - Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton said Monday he will go to the 196) legislature and ask for money for an experimental crime prevention program in Ore gon. He said he is not rur prised" that Gov. Mark Hat field cut from his budget $52,- 000 for the program, a pet project of Thornton's. In de nying it, Hatfield said such a program is a "departure" from the scope of Thornton's office. 55th Year Price 10 Cents No. 223 Man Burns To Death in Bed in Medford Home Fire in a small one-room house claimed the .life this morning of a man identified by Medford police' as Harold Von Stein Jr., 35. Medford firemen said Von Stein apparently fell asleep while smoking a cigarette in bed. The fire occurred in a small garage converted into living quarters in back of a house at '6 North Peach st. The fire was reported to the fire department at 10:50 o'clock this morning, but it had apparently already been burning for several hours. When firemen arrived at the scene of the fire, Von Stein's body was still lying on the charred ruins of the bid. The body was first identi fied by police as Von Stein through a car registration and other pieces of identification found at the scene of the fire, Von Stein's wife later con firmed the identification, po lice said. Von Stein had been an em ployee of Solar Laboratories Inc., a Medford firm which manufactures optical lenses He is survived by his wife and three children. He and his wife had been separated. Von Stein's father, Harold Von Stein Sr., is a forest fire lookout on Dutchman s peak Actual fire damage was con fined to the bed on which Von Stein had been sleeping Considerable smoke damage was done throughout the in terior of the residence. City police said Mrs. Anna Strced lives at 36 North Peach st. address, but she was apparently not home at the time of the fire. The body was taken to Conger-Morris Funeral home. USE CHRISTMAS SEALS FIGHT TB shopping days left Fight Against Odds Is Of SH Hospital (Editor's note: This is the first in a series of three ar ticles on the story of Sacred Heart hospital, Medford-its history, ill problem of keeping in operation, and possible solutions to the problem.) By GREG NOKES Mail Tribune Staff Writer The Sacred Heart Story is the story of a hospital strug gling against seemingly im possible odds to keep its doors open to the people which it has been ably serving for the past 50 years. It is a story that has never been told in full, and proba bly never will be, because there is too much to tell. It started in 1910, when a Planners Discuss Development of Limited Region The Jackson county parks and recreation commission last night discussed develop ment of the Sky Lakes limit ed area, a change in the pres ent agreement with the con cessionaire at Howard Prairie, and recommended an archi tectural firm to design a serv ice building at Howard Prairie reservoir. The commission decided to ask Carroll Brown, supervisor of the Rogue River National forest, to bring maps and ex plain the features of the Sky Lakes area at next month's commission meeting. Dale Prentice, manager of the Southern Oregon Conser vation and Tree Farm associa tion, suggested that the com mission consider the area north of Four Mile lake as a recreation ground. Develop ment of the area would be beneficial to both Jackson and Klamath counties, he said. Actually the area lies more within Klamath county than Jackson county, he aid. Examine Proposals Two commission members, J. F. Eberhart, Ashland, and Lawrence V. Espey, Medford, were appointed to further examine proposals made by Robert Johnston, Johnston Stores, Medford, for changes in his contract as concession aire at Howard Prairie reser voir. Johnston has requested that he be allowed to make some small charges for certain services. He also asked that all en trances to the reservoir area except the main entrance be blocked off to better control picnicking and camping, or he would propose terminating the remaining 12 months his contract now and put the concession up for bid on a long term basis. The commission recommend ed Architects Payne and Stru ble to draw up plans and spe cifications for a service or headquarters building at How ard Prairie. City-County Recreation Di rector Robert Haworth said the Jackson county sanitarians are making,a study of the best possible location for a drink ing water system at Emigrant reservoir. Security Council Session Cancelled United Nations, N.Y.-flJPD-Sovict Ambassador Valerian A. Zorin today summonded a night session of the Security Council to consider the arrest of deposed leftist. Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba but suffered a setback when western opposition forced him to cancel it. Zorin, council president for December, informed the other members through Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold's office this morning that he planned to call the council in to session tonight. The United States and six or seven other councumem bers, objecting to Zorin's "arbitrary" action, promptly told Hammarskjold's office they opposed a night meeting because the Russian had sum moned it without consulting them and without proper no tice or time for consultation. Silverton - lUPli - Silverton Mayor Rholin Coo ley an nounced Monday night he is not a candidate for reelection in January. He is finishing a second term of two years. Story Catholic order called the Sis ters of Charity of Providence, was asked by the medical pro fession in Medford to estab lish a hospital here. There was great need for a hospital then, for it was during those years that the city was expe riencing the most phenomenal period of growth in its his tory. The Sisters of Providence could be termed the 'trouble shooting order" of the Catho lic church. The order was formed in the 1800s to do what other Catholic orders had, for one reason, or anoth er, been unable to do. Respond To Call The Sisters responded to the call, and in 1911 with money raised by both the order and the people of the Rogue val ley, there arose, on what was then known as Knob hill, one of the finest hospitals in the West. It was truly a monu ment to the work and faith of both the Sisters and the com munity. Ever since Its founding, the hospital has been run by the Sisters of Providence. There are now 11 sisters residing at the hospital to carry out the adininstrative functions of the institution. Contrary to a popular mis conception, neither the Sisters nor the hospital receive any financial support from the Catholic church as such. In addition, if there are any prof its made at the hospital they remain with the order. They do not go to the church. None Turned Away From the day when Its doors were first opened on May 27, 1911, until the pres ent, ine nospitai nas been re sponding to the needs of Med ford and the Rogue valley Never once has a person in need knowingly been turned away from its doors. But time, rising costs, aging buildings, and the construc tion of a second, new hospital in the valley, caused the never-wealthy Institution to tumble into the most precar ious position in its history. (Continued on Page 11 A) Transient Bound Over to Jury Thomas Ernest Smoot, 57- year-old transient charged with the robbery of a Safe way store here Friday night, was bound over to the grand jury yesterday afternoon. He had waived the right to have an attorney in district court and a preliminary hear ing. He is being held on charges of robbery while being armed with a danger ous weapon. Bail has been set at $10,000. Smoot was apprehended within a block of the Safe way store at 130 North Bart lctl st. and within a few minutes of the robbery. He had a revolver and a paper sack stuffed with $509 in currency when arrested by a city policeman, police said. A customer in the store at the time of the robbery ran to the police station a short distance away to alert police. Ribicoff, Flemming In Friendly Meeting Washington - IUPD -Gov. Abraham A. Ribicoff had a friendly meeting today with Welfare Secretary Arthur S. Fleming whom he will suc ceed as head of the Health, Education and Welfare depart ment in the Kennedy administration. Police Probe Disappearance of A 62-year-old Rogue River woman with a severe illness has been missing from her home under suspicious circum stances for more than a year, state police said today. Mrs. Elsie Marie Campbell, a slight little woman with tinted red hair, was last seen around her home at 4800 South Pacific highway, Grants Pass, some time between June 6 and June 13, 1959. State police know she couldn't have left unassisted, since she was unable to move without a wheelchair. Yet her wheel chair was found In her home. Money Missing Officers kngw, too, that about $10,000 she had in her home just prior to her disap pearance Is missing, also. She had sold her home and car a year ago and withdrawn all of her savings. -i Wi 'k- f- ' a eMMiMirV!vailsk. TRANSITION MEETING President Eisenhower and President-elect John Kennedy are shown as they posed for photo graphers in the Chief Executive's office following (heir priv ate talks today. (UPI Telephoto) Friends of Group Organized; Goals Outlined The first step toward for mation of a Friends of the Library group for the public library of Medford and Jack son county was taken at the public library here last night. A group of 25 interested Medford and county people unanimously voted to form such an organization. Dewey Wilson, Medford, former library board member. presided. He explained that Friends of the Library groups have been formed in all parts of the nation. They arc all In dependent organizations, he said. Goals of the new group were outlined in a special printed report drawn up by Omar Bacon, head librarian. The number one goal was list ed as "helping the public un derstand the library services now available by an active promotion campaign through publicitybrochures and speakers."- ' Other Goals Other goals are to promote more books, magazines, re cordings; and other material! for the main library and branch libraries; improve equipment, facilities and ma terials of all branch libraries; promote an expanded program of tiie library service for the Rogue Valley through cooper ation of the Medford and Jack son county library, Ashland Public library, Josephine county Public library and others in the region, and to promote the development and growth of home libraries. Another meeting was ten Medco Engine To Be Moved Tomorrow The Medco logging engine will be moved to a new loca tion in Jackson park, prob ably tomorrow, Parks and Recreation Director Robert Haworth said today. The engine is now located along McAndrews rd. The city is having the locomotive moved to a less conspicuous spot on Clark St., 400 feet to the east. The track needed to make the move has been loaned by the Medford Corporation. Medco donated the old logging engine to the city a year ago. Some of the railroad tics and equipment, also necessary for making the move, have been donated by Southern Pacific railroad. Haworth said the city is providing the manpower. TO OPEN BIDS Portland -(UPI1- Bids will be opened Dec. 27 for contract planting of 2,249,500 two-year- old Dougl'is fir and Pondcrosa pine seedlings on 4,000 acres in 40 tracts in Oregon, the Bureau of Land Management said today. Slate police and sheriff's deputies went to her small home near the Rogue river several months ago when neighbors and friends missed her and feared she had be come seriously ill or had an accident. Officers looked through the house and saw nothing amiss. "It looks as if somebody just walked out and left it," they said. No further investigation made at that time. A Grants Pass woman who was her prac tical nurse said Mrs. Camp bell had left to live with her relatives. Case Reopened The case was reopened when Mr. and Mrs. Albert Angelo Tumelio, of Gilroy, Calif., stopped at the Medford office of the state police Sept. 1 of this year. Mrs. Tumelio, a niece of the missing woman, Iff Library tatively scheduled for Jan. 9. when officers will be elected nd a board , of directors named. Mrs. Kenneth Baker was named as chairman of a nom- nating committee. Mrs. James McGoodwin was appointed temporary chairman of a membership committee. PT-N Traces Call o Ashland Home Quick work by the Pacific Telephone, Northwest, com pany led state police and sheriff's deputies to the Charles A. Logston residence, 552 Eagle Mill rd., Ashland, this morning. However, Mrs. Ruth Loa-i ston, 5'6, was pronounced dead upon arrival at Ashland Gen eral hospital about 10:25 a.rhjl sponsibilUy-to the Democratic Preliminary examination by I administration. nospitai aocior Indicated! Elsenhower offered to hold that death may have been caused by a hertrt attack. " Sheriff's deputies and state police received a call at 0:25 a.m.. from Jason Lee, tele phone company rebalrman Lee had been sot to Ashland to track down a call Mrs, Katherine Morris, ' telephone company operator, had receiv ed at 8:25 a.m. Mrs. Morris answered the call and said she heard one groan followed by silence. Telephone com pany personnel traced the call to a six party suburban line. Operators were able to contact three of the six line members. They all reported no trouble. Then Lee was sent to check on the remaining three. At 9:25 a.m. he went to the Log ston home and by looking through a window could see Mrs. Logston collapsed on the floor. He called the sheriff's department immediately. An ambulance arrived and took Mrs. Logston to the hospital whore she was pronounced dead. . She is survived by her hus band, Charles, and a son, John. Red China Seen As Nuclear Power London - (UPD - British ex perts were reported today to have warned the government that Red China can be expect ed to become a nuclear pow er in its own right "very soon" -possibly next year. No details were available to substantiate the warning, but the suggestion of Pei ping's advance in the nuclear weapons field was believed to have played at least some part in the Soviet Union's anxiety to get world communism lined get world communism lined up behind its policy of "peace ful coeexistence." said they had Just returned from a visit to Mrs. Tumelio's mother, Mrs. John H. Curtlss, Reubens, Idaho. The niece and her husband learned that Mrs. Campbell had planned to visit Mrs. Cur tiss about a year ago last sum mer. She never showed up, nor did she call or write. Both Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss are in poor health, so no further in quiry was made. Also, the missing woman had never been close to any of her rela tives. State police started a quiet investigation. Officers inter viewed 10 people In the Rogue River area who had been asso ciated with her. Names were provided by the California couple, who had spent two Question Friends days searching the area. Officers also questioned two Eisenhower Will Be of Service If Requested Important World Problems Discussed Washington -IUPD- President Eisenhower and President elect John F. Kennedy held a "cordial" three-hour meeting today and joined in pledging that the United Slates will continue "to seek peace with justice in freedom for all peoples." Kennedy disclosed that El senhower assured him ha would be glad to be of "future service to the country" if ask ed to serve in the new ad ministration. Kennedy told newsmen tho assurance was given when ho asked the President whether he would be willing to under take an assignment if request ed after leaving the White, House Jan. 20. Kennedy did not say what he had in mind. Today's friendly meeting on transition problems contrasted to the frostiness that has ac companied some other confer ences between incoming and outgoing presidents. In Jovial Mood Kennedy and Eisenhower were m a grinning, jovial mood when they greeted each. other on the white House front porch. In a formal joint statement issued after their meeting, Kennedy and Eisenhower said they had discussed important world problems and described the conversations as ex tremely informative." The government of the United States has and will continue to seek peace' with justice in freedom for all peo ples," the statement said. Kennedy and Eisenhower said the talks will provide a better, foundation 'lor an or- - : dcrly -transfer of executive re- a . second similar meeting. Kennedy said he might take him up on the offer. Kennedy, in talking to newsmen afterwards, stressed the cooperation and friendli ness of Elsenhower in helping to solve the problems of tran sition. Eisenhower Very Helpful He said Eisenhower nas been "extremely helpful" and that the President had "gone to great pains" to help in the transition. In their talk, the two men paid particular attention to the outflow of gold and dollar reserves from this country be cause of a deficit in the U.S. balance of payments. Their statement said the dis cussions also covered "major problems of peace, security and freedom throughout the world." On the domestic front, they took up operation of the ex ecutive branch of government, including those aspects re lated to national security, as well as the White House staff operation. Salem - IUPD - Mrs. Emily P. Logan of Corvallis has been reappointed to the State In dustrial Accident commission. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair through Wednesday, Chance of patchy valley fog Wednesday morning. Gusty southeasterly winds. Low tonight 25. High Wednes day 55. Temp. Highest Yesterday 43 Lowest This Morning 24 Our Skies Tonight Runset today 4:39 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 7:27 a.m. The Moon. In AnoRee. Is 252,100 miles from the Earth as It rises tonight at 8:04 p.m. Last Quarter Dec. It V1MIILK PLANETS Jupiter, sets 5:48 p.m. Venus, lets 7:06 p.m. Saturn, between Venus and Jupiter. Mars, rises - 7:07 p.m. Woman friends In the Grants Pass area and doctors at the Jose phine General hospital In Grants Pass where Mrs. Camp bell had received treatment. The physicians wondered why she hadn't returned since her last visit on June 13, 1959. But apparently they were not enough concerned to investi gate themselves. Because of an advanced cancerous condi tion, she probably is dead now, the doctors told officers. State police searched the river behind the house, tha outbuildings and. dug up the yard, but have failed to turn, up any clues. Anyone in the area state police have not contacted, and who might know something about the ' missing woman, is asked to contact the state polics.
