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o i Recommended Work on what will be lh world s highest eartii-im dam li f-" 'ui'y ,on ,he Trinity river in California. The dam when completed will rise i65 ,eeJ above the stream bed, and sun. B,ynX"JaTt" cfl Valley Project. Read about the 549 . 000,000 dam and other pro"' , MaSVTPrlbunneP,8e . 01 """ Subscribers EDF0RD To report improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-6141. in Ashland MU 2-1021 and in Yreka. VI 2-2807. beioro 6:45 p.m. dally and 10:30 a.m. Sunday If regular delivery arrives shortly after you call pleas notify office thus eliminatinl ipeclal messenger service m m i United Presi International Full Leased Wlro United Press International Full Leased Wir 64 Pages Section MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1960 No. 227 Capsule iscoverer ut of Iver Pacific Oc M kM M sjkt sssk i k ksksl A Snagged i- - - r?7n?r..V PtH0P0SED ShOjvn above is Architect William H. Seiberl's Highway 99 and the proposed Interstate 5 freeway, just south of the armory tHi? ( i a,pP05fd mulu-purpose stadium for Jackson county. The and county detention home. Exit roads would usher traffic from the stadium stadium is located in the right center of the picture, between exiting onto the freeway, Highway 99 and Barnett rd. Athletic Stadium Proposed at County Fairgrounds: Petitions Circulated Petitions to the 'Jackson county court are being circu lated by the Citizens Stadium committee for construction of an athletic stadium on 'the Jackson county , fairgrounds, according to John. Weisbrocl and William Seibert, Medford businessmen and committee members. The multi-purpose stadium could be budgeted for and fi nanced completely by Jack son county, the committee?. Ss serls. It would be , repaid by leases, rentals, charges -for parking and possible tax. on ticket sales and profits from exhibitions and - shows. A county bond issue could ' be floated and be repaid by the afore-mentioned sources, the committee pointed out. Also, the school system could join in a payment program. Ac cording to estimates and fig ures it would amortize itself over 20 years plus mainte nance. Commission Suggested The stadium backers sug gest a seven-man commission to be appointed by the coun ty court. This group would aid in designing and formulating plans. Further duties would be to regulate, schedule and promote stadium use. This commission should work with, but be independent of, all other committees, commis sions and governing bodies and be accountable only to the county court, it was sug gested. Initial development for a beginning operation with 10, 000 seats would cost an esti mated $250,000, the commit tee estimates. This would in clude dressing rooms and companion facilities at $75, 000, paved parking lot for 1.700 cars, $60,000; fencing, $23,000; field lighting, $20,- 000 and parking area lighting, $7,000. An estimated 7,000 seals in an excavated area constructed 1 ....it 1,nilr4 Dy llie ftumie WCVUUU wumu cost about $35,000, it was ex plained. About 3,000 seats above ground constructed by the pre-cast method would cost an estimated $30,000. Estimated costs for an ul timate development for 20,000 seats would be $413,000. This would include a paved park ing lot for 4,100 cars instead of 1,700 cars. Uses Proposed Proposed uses for such a multi-purpose stadium would be: for school activities, for Dro football games, pro base ball exhibition for major league and coast leagues; box- pnellinn fnr ncn tw a Northwest league, Class B. urn hasph.ill tr-am SDOnsored : by a National or American league club, college use in cluding a fear cowi game, basfball, soft ball, 4-H and 1 FFA, use by Granges, lodges, ' veterans and political groups, conventions and shows. Louis Spadia, general man ager of the San Francisco Forty-Niners in the profes sional National Football league, telephoned Weisbrod Friday to say that the Forty- Niners were interested in see- ing such a development built in Medford and promised to do whatever they could to make it a reality. "Don't make the sane mis ' take so many areas make by underestimating a stadium's need and building it too small," Spadia warned Weis brod. Spadia said the Forty-Niners would be interested in play ing exhibition games in Med ford if such a stadium is built. Ho said it would take about 20,000 seats capacity to make such a game financially interesting. "A multi-purpose stadium is a judicious use of oublic funds and land .set aside for the public benefit," Weisbrod pointed out. "Throughout the nation there is nothing that a governing body can provide Bengfson To Josephine County Circuit Judge Orval Millard Friday afternoon granted a motion to remove the trial of Medford lawyer O. H. Bengt son on charges of embezzle ment from Jackson county. However, Bengtson's attor neys, Richard Carney, Port land, and Robert Boyer, Med ford, had sought to move the trial from both Jackson and Josephine counties on the charge that an unbiased jury could not be formed in either county. Judge Millard, how ever, set the trial for Jan. 6 in the Josephine county cir cuit court at Grants Pass. .Following protests Xjy both Bengtson and Carney, the Josephine county judge said he must send the trial to the nearest possible county for reasons of economy to Jack son county. Bengtson and his attorneys said they preferred Klamath county. "I think it is only fair to me to move the trial to another Bloodmobile Due Here Wednesday The Red Cross Bloodmobile will be in Medford Wcdnes day, Dec. 21 at the Red Cross chapter house, 60 Hawthorne ave. Mrs. J. W. Burba, blood do nation chairman, stated that the Bloodmobile will be here only from 1 to 5 p.m. During past visits donations were ac cepted until later in the eve ning. To obtain the 290 pint quota for the visit, 350 donors are needed, Mrs. Burba said. She added that during the past year only 64 per cent of the quota assigned to Jackson county has been collected. The 360 pint shortage had to be furnished by military personnel at Ft. Lewis. During the monthly board of directors' meeting of the local chapter last week. Dr. Elmo Stevenson, chapter chairman, encouraged resi dents to give the "gift of a life this Christmas" by do nating blood. Appointments for the Dec. 21 visit are now being accept ed by the Red Cross by tele- pnoTiing string j-ivw. A number of service clubs and churches are assisting with the drive to obtain blood donors. that yields economic returns to an entire area or brings as much diversified entertain ment to the total population as does a well -planned and directed multi-purpose sta dium." Accessibls io Everyone "By erecting the stadium on the proposed site it would add to the development of the proposed freeway. The loca tion adjoining the freeway and major county and state highways makes it accessible to everyone in southern Ore gon and northern California," Weisbrod added. Trial Ordered Moved county, Bengtson protested. "I feel I am entitled to some consideration. I have been an attorney here tor 30 years." "You are entitled to the same rights and privileges as any defendant and no more and no less!" Judge Millard snapped. Question of Prosecutor There is some question as to "' will prosecute the case in which Bengtson is charged with embezzling $1,700 from the Medford Escrow conn -ny. The trial is set for Jan. 3, the day when the new district at torney, Alan Holmes, will take office. Chief Deputy Dis trict Attorney Gerald Scan- Sports Bulletins Medfoid High school's Black Tornado, tough on de fense, outplayed North Bend's basketball quintet 57 to 35 here last night. The Tornado was ahead 12 io 3. 25 to 13 and 45 to 18 at the quarters. Bob Quinney had 17 points and Dick Rags dale 13 for Medford and Chuck Johns 12 for tha Bulldogs. St. Mary's High hoop club with Mika Austin tabu lating 16 points, romped over Pacific 50 to 29 last night. The Crusaders were on top at each intermission 16 to 5, 26 to 18 and 43 to 21. Ashland - Harold vonBar gen scored 25 points and collected 24 rebounds to spur Chico Slate college hoopmen to a 67 to 45 de cision over Southern Ore gon here last night. Dave Hughes tallied 19 for SOC. HIGH SCHOOL SCORES Crater 54, Stay:on 48 Crater JV 78, Butte Falls 50 Shasta 51, Ashland 41 Ashland JV 31, Shasta JV 26 Rogue River 4:,. Grants Pais JV 41 Klamath Falls 66, Spring field 46 Marshfield 55, Grants Pass 51 COLLEGE SCORES Washington 58, Oregon State 47 Colorado 71, Oregon 57 California 51, St. Mary's 43 Washington State 64, Idaho 56 "Test excavations have been made and ideal soil con ditions exist for a bowl shap ed excavation to be made free and the excavated ma terial sold at $10,000 to $15, 000 profit. A drain field built into the stadium floor and throughout the parking lot will have a 35-foot outface into Bear Creek. With these ideal conditions coming at such an opportune time, cost estimates indicate this facili ty can be built at costs of one fourth the national average for such structures," Weis brod concluded. Court- ncll, who has been prosecul- ng the case, was defeated by Holmes in the Nov. 8 general election. Also, Holmes, until he takes office, is a-law part ner of Boyer, one of the at torneys defending Bengtson. After becoming a serious can didate for district attorney, Holmes had withdrawn from the case.. Widespread Publicity In moving for a change of venue, Boyer and Carney con tended that the Bengtson case has been given such wide spread publicity that it would be impossible to find a fair and impartial jury in either Josephine or Jackson counties. They filed affadavits signed by several citizens of the area and submitted exhibits con tain Mail Tribune articles on the case and a copy of a KBES-TV script. Courtroom arguments halt ed while attorneys and the judge poured over the Mail Tribune papers in the ex hibits. "I'm not critical of the pa per at all," Judge Millard said. "They (the paper) has a right to report the trials as long as they tell the truth. They have done a fair and ac cur; job of reporting. A public matter will not be ig nored by a newspaper." Hearing Recessed Also, at one point In the hearing, the judge recessed the case until later in the afternoon to allow Scannol to file affadavits in opposition. However, Scannel frankly stated that his affadavits, ob tained mainly from Medford bankers, were opposed to trial in this county on grounds that a fair and impartial jury could not be found. Originall y, Scannel had filed no affa davits in opposition to the mo tion. ! Kennedy Works on New Administration Palm Beach, Fla.-iUPli-Prcs-ident-elect John F. Kennedy worked by telephone in the seclusion of his seaside villa today, attempting to complete the upper structure of his new administration by the end of next rrnk. MEETS MIKOYAN Moscow -fUPIi- Visiting Sen. John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky.) Saturday conferred with So viet First Deputy Premier An astas Mikoyan. Four Critically Injured as Two Vehicles Collide Four men are in critical condition with head and in ternal injuries today as a re sult of a two vehicle collision on the Crater Lake highway near the Steve Wilson shop Friday night, slate police re ported. Injured were James A. Mur phy,43, Milton E. Stafford, 62, and Julian A. Marks, 53, all of the Camp White veterans and Carl Richard Harrison, 32 administration domici 1 1 a r y, of 56 Perrydale ave., Med ford. All were taken to Sacred Heart hospital by Medford Ambulance Service. A car containing tne four men was northbound on the highway and making a left turn into a parking lot. It was protruding into the south bound lane when a pickup truck in which Carl Richard Harrison was riding struck it head on while traveling south on the highway, state police said. State police said they under stood there may have been a woman in the pickup truck, also. Earlier Friday night, a station wagon driven by Rob ert Lee Whitton, 23, of Route 1, Box 54, Jacksonville, failed to mpke an icy curve on the Jacksonville hill section of the Jacksonville high way and went over a bank. The driver escaped uninjured, but the car was damaged. Early Saturday morning, David Arthur Brown, 19, of 2999 Diane St., Ashland, was thrown out of his sports car after it struck a ditch just north of Phoenix on the South Pacific highway. Brown complained of leg injuries and suffered face cuts. He was treated at bacred Heart hospital and released, state police said. A witness told state police that Brown blinked his lights as his and Brown's car ap proached each other, then Brown's south bound car moved into the inside lane, swerved sharply to the right and landed in a small ditch Brown was thrown an esti mated 29 feet. Hatfield To Tell Government Plan Salcm-lUPIl-Govcrnor Mark Hatfield will announce his plans for reogranization of Oregon's government at a news conference Thursday morning. Hatfield is known to favor a full cabinet system of gov ernment in Oregon similar to the federal system. The proposals he will an nounce will be made to the 1961 legislature. They are expected to in clude abolition of the state board of control. Friday night Hatfield said the idea of mer ger of the fish and game com missions is "sound" and in dicatcd he favors making the offices of labor commissioner, attorney general and superin tendent of public instruction appointive instead of elective. Honolulu - IUPD - A capsule containing human tissue was recovered over the Pacific Saturday after soaking up ra diation on a record near mil lion and a half mile space trip aboard a Discoverer sat ellite. A high-flying Air Force cargo plane snagged the para chuting capsule at 14,000 feet. It was the third such aerial recovery, the fourth capsule recovery and the second con secutive in-flight catch for Capt. Gene Jones, Walla Wal la. Wash. Launched Wednesday The gold-plated capsule had been zipping around the poles of the earth inside the Dis coverer XVIII satellite since launching Wednesday from Vandenberg Air Force base. Aboard the 300-pound cap sule was human eyelid tissue, bone marrow and blood to fry. V " M 4 - V v.Tn,.. r?f ; UK U " V A I ; 3 a : lift - :? w j :i !i , : v ' ' tv . V, V 1 pi 3r - I- VV i' :frfl I AWARDS COLLECTED Nobel Prize winners of 1960 pose MacFarlane Burnet 0 Australia, co-winners of the award with their awards after ceremonies at Stockholm Saturday. for medicine; Dor.ald A. Glaser, of the United Slates, win Shown with their prizes are, from left, Willard Libby of ner of the physics award, and St. Jonn Perse of France, the United States, winner of the chemistry award; Pro- winner of the literature award. ' . fessor Peter Brian Medawar of Britain, and Sir Frank (UPI Telephoto) Holmes Told To File With Stale Jack F. Thompson, slate di rector of elections, wrote Dis trict Attorney - elect Alan Holmes that filing of his elec tion epenses with the county elections department is "no filing in the eyes of the law." County Clerk Marvin Mad den said Holmes' statements of his election expenses have been returned to him so he could send them to the secre tary of slate's office in Salem. In his letter dated Dec. 8, the state elections director wrote, "A district attorney as defined in the Oregon revised statute is a slate officer and as such, and within the frame work of Oregon revised stat ute 260, all filings relating to his contributions and ex penditures must be filed with the secretary of stale. If in ignorance such a fil ing 'were made with the coun ty clerk it is none the less no filing in the eyes of the law. 'It is suggested that you request the county clerk to return the filing to you and you forward same to this of fice in that there is no chan nel of communication between the county clerk's and this office in such matters." Tompson wrote he was sending a copy of the letter to the county clerk. Bright Object Seen In Sky Over Phoenix An unusually bright "ob ject" was observed in tha ky over Phoenix Saturday night. According to Roy Harnden, 2011 Camp Baker rd.. Phoenix, the object was traveling at a high rale of speed in a southwesterly direction. Harnden said he first lighted the object at 6:30 p.m. It had a brilliant while light and was radiating red and green rays, Harnden said. It was visible for about 30 minutes, ht added. study the effects radiation might have on future space travelers. During the 48 passes around the earth at 18,000 miles an hour, the capsule covered 1, 248,000 miles - more than the distance required for a round trip to the moon. "We're damned h a p p y," said nn officer assigned to the program. "Two in a row re covered, 48 orbits - we ought Io learn a lot from this one." Planes, Crews Wailing Nine specially equipped planes and their crews were waiting and ready when the gold - plated package came down by parachute from the northern skies. A radio signal sent out from the space lab at Sunnyvale, Calif., released it from the 25-foot Discoverer satellite flashing over Alaska on its 48th circuit. At 40,000 feet the parachute c)MSXtSl1'.i... Il-Hl I ' .....-'"- Algiers Becomes Battlefield As Europeans, Moslems Clash Algicrs-IUPD-Rioting French settlors turned the heart of Algiers into a battlefield Sat urday and fought with Mos lems and riot police in Oran in the second straight day of near-insurrection against the visit of President Charles de Gaulle. At least two persons were killed, both Moslems, and an estimated 200 persons were in jured in barrages of flaming Molotov cocktails, brickbats, paving blocks and chunks of roofing tile. A number of casualties were caused by tanks and armored cars grind ing through the streets, Serious Clashes For the first lima there wore serious clashes between Europeans and Moslems. A mob of 2,000 Arabs smashed European car windows and threw stones at police in the Bclcourt suburb of Algiers and battled In the gutters with whites in Oran. Some of the Moslems in both cities bore banners with the dread call for a "jihad" -holy war. De Gaulle continued his tour, riding into Orleansvlllc in western Algeria shortly after a wild clash in the ccn- USE CHRISTMAS SEALS FIGHT TB shopping days left 111 111 opened. When it floated down to 25,000 feet, Jones spotted it. On his first pass he snag ged the orange parachute on the long boom under his plane. It took the crew 14 minutes to pull the capsule aboard with its treasure of instruments and living matter which had been subjected to the hazards a man would face in a trip through space. Northwest of Honolulu The capsule was caught about 450 miles northwest of Honolulu. Discoverer XVH, the one recovered Nov. 14, was caught by Jones 500 miles northeast of Honolulu. One had been caught in the air before that and another picked up in the water. Jones, 39, was a "substi tute" pilot Saturday, flying with a different crew from the one he had along on the ft' I ter 'of the city between ex tremists t'colons" (settlers) and Moslems who charged the European sector, burning stores and attacking whites. "The ultras (extremist set tlers) to the stake," the Mos lems screamed. "Vive De Gaulle. Vive Algerian Al geria." The Moslems supported De Gaulle's idea of a seinl-inde-pendent Algeria, something the settlers oppose on grounds that "Algeria Is French." . Passions Erupt The cry "Vive De Gaulle" vied with the shout "De Gaulle to the Gallows" across the length and breadth of the wartorn North African coun try. In . Algiers, Oran, -Orleans- Boys Questioned On Burglaries Stale police have taken six boys into custody for question ing about several burglaries In the Rogue Rivcr-Woimor area which have occurred in recent months. v The boys were rounded up following police investigation of the burglary of the Rogue River Beauty Salon Friday night. About $30 was taken. Pollrc said Investigation indi cated the possibility that a juvenile gang was operating in the area. Police said the juveniles may be Involved in burglaries which have occurred in the Rogue River-Welmer at since September. Sloaman's market In Wei- mer was burglarized in Oc tober. Wrist watches, two cases of 22 shells and miscel laneous grocery Items were taken. The Weimcr school was burglarized in late September and $15 taken, A camera lens and loudspeaker were stolen from the Rogue River school a few weeks ago. Police said several homes in the area have also been burglarized. previous catch. With him Sat urday were co-pilot 1st Lt. Charles E. Leech, 27, of Oil City, Pa.; navigator 1st Lt. Frank J. Linseisen. 26, Wal ler, Tex.; flight engineer T. Sgt. Otis L. Powell, 31, San Lorenzo, Calif.; winch operat or M.Sgt. William F. Ramsey, 36, of Spartanburg, S. C; S.Sgt. Jack E. Morgan, 28, o Lawton, Okla.; Airmen Don ald R. Brown, 21, Norris City, 111.; Allan R. Scharf, 22, Ker man. Calif.; David E. Wilson, 23, Lakevicw, M i c h and James D. Berry, Peoria, 111. Most Successful Officers hailed Saturday's catch as "the most successful we have had," with split-second timing from its launching at Vanderberg Wednesday un til the moment it was plucked out of the sky by Jones' plane. ville and other large cities and towns passions erupted in street fighting.- Acting Mayor Rene Mekkl of Oran said the situation was likely to become "very grav,$ " As he spoke, between 10,000 and 15,000 settlers rioted in the streets, showering stones on the mobile gendarmes" and the regular security police. Durno Resigns Effective Dec. 19 -. Salem - (UPD - State Sen. Edwin-Durno (R-Medford) has resigned as state senator ef fective Dec. 19, according to sources here. Durno was elected to con gress in Oregon fourth's dis trict at the Nov. 8 election, upsetting Democratic incum bent Charles O. Porter. Durno's resignation will ba effective at 9 a.m. on he 19th. The Jackson County Court has not yet announced his suc cessor. New York, N.Y. - (UPD-Tha liner United States sailed for Europe Saturday with 1,600 passengers and 19,000 sacks of Christmas mail. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy this niornliu with Incrcnslnn cloud Infss this afternoon. Light ratn Hkely tonight and early Mon day. Variable cloudiness Mon day afternoon with a few wide ly tcnUejDd shower. High to day 50. Low tonight 40. High Monday 46. Iflghol Yesterday ... 54 Lowest Thlf Morning 31 Preclp. To S p.m. Yesterday trace Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 4:39 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7.32 a.m. Moonrlse tomorrow ...12:52 a.m. New Moon Dec. 18 PROMINENT STARS Detelgeuse, low In east 7:14 p.m. Procyon, low In east " 8:49 p.m. Beteifteuse, high In south 12:40 a.m. Procyon, high In south 3:24 a.m. PS I1PI f til, ; 3 o
