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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.
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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.