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United jUriin ri Em Medfokd Tribt A. rV United Press Full Leased Wire United Pre ' 50th Year 26 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1955 wm 10-4 In nute i Salt Late Oity ARCH'Y InTID Guardsmen Given Orders To End Woody Violence Troopers Sent To Perfect Circle Plant New Castle, Ind. (U.R) Hun- dreds of National Guardsmen, led by Sherman tanks, rolled Into New Castle today with or ders to end the bloody, violence at the strikebound Perfect Cir cle Corp. qGov. George Craig sent the 600 troopers after 10 persons were injured in a wild gunfight between strikers and non strikers Wednesday. Four CIO - United Auto Workers pickets and four non-strikers were shot and a state police captain was club bed over the head. All Taverns Closed The guardsmen were preceded by two 49-ton M-47 Sherman tanks, each armed with a 90 mil limetre gun and three machine guns. The troopers followed in four halftracks, trucks, and Jeeps. All taverns were closed and a 9 p.m. curfew was imposed. The guardsmen had orders to break up any . picketing eand to stop anybody except maintenance men from entering the Perfect Circle plant. They were to be ent to the Perfect Circle plant , and to a .larger -Chrysler - Corp, plant?where officials feared new violence might break out. Sympathy Demonstration e The 4,000 Chrysler plant em oyees had stayed off the job In a sympathy demonstration Wednesday. The heaviest single force of guardsmen 'was posted at the Chrysler plant o make sure violence doesn't erupt when the first shift of 1,700 employees reported for work. Road blocks were set up around this city of 18,000 to keep out out-of-towners who might want o to swell the strikers' ranks. 3 Another crisis in the bitter Perfect Circle dispute was ex pected when representatives of the company and of the striking CK United Auto Workers meet irrthe city council chambers in an attempt to work out some kind of a truce. Valley Has First Freeze of Season - First freezing temperature of The season was recorded this morning at the Medford station of the U. S. weather bureau but both County Extension Agent W.B. Tucker and the bureau stated that frost was not general enough to. end the growing sea son in Jackson county. ; Low temperature reading was 32 degrees. There was . scattered frost. Tucker had a few reports of dam age to truck crops. Melon, squash? pumpkin and tomato vines wilted down in scattered places. The county agent said there is still considerable growing time for forage crops, hay, corn and pasture. Opportunity ; still existed for cucumbers and "quite a number of vegetables" to ..grow. Washington (U.R) ' The Comptroller of Currency has is sued a call on all national banks to report their condition as of Oct. 5. Neuberger Urges Extension Of Bonneville Power System Lakeview (U.R) Extension . of the Bonneville power system was proposed by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger last night when he and Rep. Sam Coon carried their public power debate into this livestock center outside BPA's realm. ' Coon, the Baker Republican who authored a bill for partner ship financing of John Day dam on the Columbia river, said the Northwest needs new industry to support its growing popula tion and that power develop ments must be started in a hur ry. He asserted that partnership TAH.K TRIK Janouch Appointed To Succeed Sweeney As County Treasurer W "'''if KARL JANOUCH Maw County Treasurer RALPH SWEENEY Ends Long. Tenure ies Of Wreck Injuries Floyd Pence, 45, Route 1, Jacksonville, died last night as the result of injuries received late Saturday evening in i automobile accident at Central Point. Funeral arrangements are pending at Conger-Morris1 Funeral home. He was born at Trail and in addition to his wife, Capitola, he is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Minnus Pence, Jacksonville; four brothers, Har old Pence, Trail; Frank Pence, Eureka, Calif.; Paul Pence and Noel Pence, both of Medford; and three sisters, Mrs. Verne McKenzie, Trail; Mrs. LaDale Herrman, Medford, and Mrs. Harold Kilburn, Jacksonville. County Judge Gets Apples With Pears Jackson County Judge Rod ney Keating today insisted that a grafting accident was re sponsible for . a winter Nelis pear in his Valley View or chard that has been producing apples along with its pears. Keating said that had he had such a grafting experiment in mind he would have tried growing pears on an apple tree. Pears bring a better price - than apples. - ' financing, with local interests putting up the money for dam construction, 'was the quickest way to get power on the line. Neuberger, Portland Demo crat replied that cheap federal power was the surest way to at tract new industry. He said John Day dam should be made part of the Bonneville system and that BPA's service area should be extended. The two Congressmen move to Klamath Falls for a debate ap pearance tonight and then con clude their ten-city tour tomor nw night at Bend. SENT I ONE The county court today ap pointed Karl L. Janouch as county treasurer, succeeding Ralph E. Sweeney, whose resig nation was submitted to the court last week and was accept ed Monday. ' He will be sworn in officially at a ceremony some time this afternoon. In appointing Janouch, the court disregarded "with regret" the recommendation of the Jack son County Democratic Central committee, which had urged the appointment of either Andrew Hawver or Ralph James. Janouch's appointment is ef fective immediately. He has been deputy treasurer for years, is a Democrat as the law requires, and for many years was supervisor of, the Rogue River National forest,' later ser ving as a forester with a lumb er firm here. Here is the text of the county court's announcement of the appointment. "The Jackson County court has received and reviewed the recommendations from the Jack son County Democratic Central committee for appointment as County Treasurer to serve the unexpired term of Ralph . E. Sweeney who recently resigned. "Under Oregon Law, the suc cessor appointed to complete an unexpired term must be of the same political party as the retir ing official. Business Background "It is the feeling of the court that the appointment of a suc cessor to Mr. Sweeney is to be based on personal qualifications and business background of the appointee. With this in mind the court feels that in the best in terest of the county it'must dis regard with regret, the recom mendations of the Jackson County Democratic Central com mittee, and does hereby appoint Karl L. Janouch, Jackson Coun ty Treasurer, to fill the unexpir ed term. "Mr. Janouch has served as Chief Deputy under the retiring treasurer for years. In Mr. Janouch, through his work and v close , association with Mr. Sweeney, the court feels he is eminently qualified to fill the unexpired term until Dec. -31, 1956. Effective date of this ap pointment is Oct. 6, 1955." French Troops Seek To Rescue Garrison Fez, Morocco (U.R) A re inforced French armored col umn fought northward toward the Spanish Moroccan border at dawn today in an attempt to res cue a French Foreign Legion gar rison surrounded by; rebellious Riff tribesmen. French authorities believed they had broken the back of the rebellion but legionnaires at Tizi Ouzli were still cut off and much heavy fighting remained before peace can be restored to the bloody triangle north of Fez. North Bend Mill Closed By Boxcar Shortage North Bend, Ore. ! U.R) The Menasha Plywood Corporation plant here which employs 315 workers, will shut down tonight until at least next Monday be cause of the boxcar shortage. Sales Manager Mowry Smith Jr., said the plant had a record production last month of 6,500, 000,000 feet of three-eighth inch plywood. Warehouse stacks went from 1,250,000 feet in Sep tember to 2,500,000 feet Camp White Man Hurt In Automobile Mishap Leroy Francis Wells, 62, Camp White, received a compound fracture of .his left arm when his car overturned in a ditch Wi miles east of Medford. on highway 62 last night. Wells was taken to Commun ity hospital by Medford Ambu lance service. ,ence iiower Trip Bfe j Made At Ike's Request Denver (U.R) Vice-President Richard M. Nixon will fly to Denver Saturday for a face to face bedside conference with President Eisenhower, the temp orary White House reported to day. ' ' ' Press Secretary James C. Hag erty said Nixon is making the trip at the President's request. It will be the first direct con tact between the vice-president and JVlr. Eisenhower since the chief executive was stricken with a heart attack almost two weeks ago. Hagerty said the vice-president will fly to Denver in the same plane with Sherman Ad ams, top presidential assistant; Dr. Dudley White, the famous Boston heart specialist, who is advising on the case, and Maj. John Eisenhower, the President's son, Optimistic Reports The announcement was re garded as pnother of the in creasing (Signs that the chief ex ecutive Is on the road to recov ery. The critical period in Mr. Eisenhower's recovery will end this week end, and the atmos phere around the chief executive was much more cheerful today as medical bulletins continued to report progress in his recov ery. At 11 a.m. (MST)the doctors reported that the .President con tinued to progress "satisfactor ily without complication" after a sound night's sleep. ... . Hagerty emphasized that Nix- ojQfand Jthe, President,wai dis-i cuss no controversial ' matters and that the President "just wants to visit with him." Nixon Summons Security Council Washington (U.R) Vice-President Richard M. Nixon called a meeting of the top-lever Na tion Security Council ; today the second such session over which he has . presided since President Eisenhower's illness. In advance of the meeting Nixon conferred with presiden tial assistant Sherman Adams, who returned to Washington by plane Wednesdav nieht from the temporary White House at Den ver, iiaie Wednesday he discuss ed with other White House aides the "routine matters" to be considered by the security council and the cabinet on Fri day. ' Nixon has been given written permission by Mr. Eisenhower to preside at both the council and cabinet meetings. Earlier today Nixon commend ed regional directors of the Small Business Administration for "the job they are doing." He addressed them at a closed meeting. .',. Blood Collection Appointments Taken Appointments are now being taken for the Tuesday blood col lection program to be held at the Medford Elks temple, ac cording to Red Cross officials. Fifteen prospective donors had made appointments through this morning Quota for this month's collection program is 240 pints, and some 300 donors will be needed to reach " that amount. The Bloodmobile collection unit will be at the Elks temple from 1 to 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct 11. Appointments to give blood at that time may be made by teieofioning Medford 3-3813 Fall From Scaffold f Fatal To Bend Man Bend (U.R) William S. Fenn, 28, was killed yesterday after noon when he fell from a 28-foot scaffold while working on the new high school. Fenn, a recent resident of Redmond, is survived by bis wife, Lois, a two-year-old son, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Fenn of Albany. Fenn was a native of Nyssa. Salem (U.R) Apportion ment of highway revenues for the three months ended Sept. 30 totaled $2,880,546 according to Secretary, of State Earl T. New- brjr. I w p . J DEER HUNTER HAS EXCITEMENT There was an exciting moment for Irvin C. Warren, Medford, last Sunday morning when he shot the four-point mule deer with which he is posed here. Warren said he saw the buck coming from quite a distance. He fired at it when it was 75 yards away. The mortally wounded animal kept coming right at him and dropped just 10 feet from him. The deer was killed on the Sonny Dick ranch at Fox mountain near Lakeview. Warren is one of many Medford vicinity hunters who got their venison last week end. ,He was one of a party of seven, six of whom got their deer. Others in the group were Bill Honnel, Tom Colley and Michael Norton, Medford, Gene Ballman and son, Tony, Ashland, and Dick. Warren's deer had a 32 58-inch antler spread. It was a deer the hunting party had been after for a couple of years and had been spotted in the area also before the season opened. (Anders .photo). . Unemployment Drops To Three-Year Low I n Jackson '' Unemployment in Jackson county during September fell to its. lowest level in three years, according to John J. Patton, manager of the Medford office of the Oregon State Employment service. Non - agricultural placements through the Medford office reached the highest level for only one month during the past six years. 262 Unemployed At the end of the month, the number of unemployed in the county was estimated at - 262. The jobless ; group consisted mainly of older men and women who had been temporarily laid cff, and those who had recently moved to this area and were not establised here. ' Weeks of unemployment claim ed during September were bare ly over half of the number of weeks claimed in August and slightly less than half the num ber of weeks claimed during September of 1954. Employment reached a peak during the month as a result of harvesting an above normal pear crop and a good peach crop. Forest . fires early in the month were a threat to the log ging industry, but production was resumed when rains helped control this situation Production Was Normal Lumber prices were slightly less favorable during September, but production continued at or close to" normal capacity. Where possible, mills are planning to operate throughout the winter. Favorable weather helped keep fruit harvesting and log ging employment at a high level. The above-normal fruit, harvest absorbed all surplus able bodied workers, increased demand for shorttime help, and lessened available supplies of men for industrial demands. . Will Increase Supply End of the fruit harvest, Pat ton says, will increase the sup ply of job seekers, many of vhom have regular occupations and skills for which there have been no immediate demand. ' Fruit harvest- will begin to tsper off by the middle of Octo ber, releasing more workers who Klamath Falls Calls For Potato Pickers , Salem (U.R) Klamath Falls sent out an urgent call for some 600 potato pickers as. Oregon's available labor supply dropped to 15,900, lowest in three years, the State Employment Service said today. ; Biggest shortages of workers were around Portland and in eastern Oregon, reports from the 28 local offices showed. County will be seeking jobs elsewhere Weather permitting, the outlook for jobs in logging and lumber is expected to continue good for the next 90 days. Festival Leaders Chosen at Meeting The Rev. John L. Thompson, Ashland, was elected president of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival association last night in Ashland at the association's an nual 'meeting. " Frank Fairweather, Medford, was reelected vice-president. Mrs. ' John C. , Cotton, Ashland, was named secretary, and Rob ert Reinholdt, . Ashland, was elected treasurer. , - New board members, elected for three-year terms," are Dr. Vern Blue and Phillip Gates, both of Ashland. Reelected to the board are Dr. B. A. Cope, retir ing president, Ashland; A. C. Allen Jr., Eagle Point, and Russ Jameson," Medford. Holdovers among the direct ors are Robertson Collins, Med f ordr R. D.- McCullouch,- Valley VieWi and Harry A. Skerry, H. S. Ingle, Rudolf Vest, and Ralph Burgess, all of Ashland. Scioo Principals ! To Meet of Salem Salem (U.R) Some 400 school principals will be in Salem in the next two weeks for two con ventions. The Oregon Association of Sec ondary School Principals will hold its annual convention next Monday and Tuesday. The Ore gon Association of Elementary Principals convention will be held Oct. 17-18. ' I Pendleton U.R) Funeral services were held, today for Jim W. Shafer, 95-year-old Uma tilla county pioneer, who died Monday. Young Democrats of Oregon Propose Election Days Be Made Legal Holidays Portland (U.R) Young Democrats of Oregon urged to day that election days be made legal holidays, that"" election board members be raised in pay from 75 cents to $1 an hour and that other changes be made to ease voting procedure in the state. ' ' These and other recommenda tions were contained in a letter from R. Vernon "Cook, state Young Demoerittt pratidant, to Worst Commercial Air Crash in U.S. History Cheyenne, Wyo. U.R) A United Air" Lines four-en gined . DC4 transport plane en route from Denver to Salt Lake City smashed into snow-covered 12,005 foot Medicine Bow Peak in Southern Wyoming today apparently killing all 64 persons aboard. It was the worst commercial airliner crash in the nation's history. . The worst previous occurred Jan. 24, 1950, when 58 were killed in the crash of a Northwest Air Lines DC4 in Lake Michigan. The big plane, reported overdue for more than three hours be fore its wreckage was spotteti' peared to have smashed into the towering peak at a 90-degree angle, then exploded and burned, i Pilots of the 44th Air Rescue Squadron who flew over the crash scene said . the plane had disintegrated, and that it seemed impossible that any, of the 61 passengers and three crew members survived. Hug Burned Area ' Capt. Melvin E. Conine, Chey enne, co-pilot of a Wyoming Air National Guard F80 jet fighter which first spotted the aircraft's wreckage, said there was a hugeH burned area around the crash scene. He said he doubted that anyone could have survived. Conine said the DC4 appar ently smacked into the top of the peak and then slid 200 feet down the sheer rock face of the peak. Parts of the wrecked plane were strewn over a large area in the deep snow on the moun tain. The burned-over portion could be seen as far away - as the small community of Centennial, Wyo., about 12 miles south of the crash scene. The location is about 35 miles to 40 miles west of Laramie, Wyo. Dangerous Winds " ' The weather was clear in the vicinity of, the peak but high. wirias created a dangerous tur bulence, for planes flying close to the mountain. The passengers aboard the plane-were believed-4o have in cluded five members of . the famed Salt Lake .City Mormon Tabernacle Choir returning home from a concert tour of Europe. ,They were identified in Salt Lake City as Mrs. Endon G Schow, Bountiful; and Mrs. Don ald A. Kirk, Mrs. B. Ray Seare, Mrs. Charles Smurthwaite and Mrs. Victor J. Beck, all of Salt Lake City: ,, - Four other passengers were reported to be Mrs. Darrell Tucker, Ogden, her 21-months- M. West, SaltXake City, and her son, Earl. In San Francisco, United Air lines identified the three crew members as Capt. G. G. Cooke, 35, of Menlo Park, Calif.; First Officer, Ralph D. Salisburg, . 33, of Palo Alto, Calif., and Stew ardess Patricia Shuttleworth, 22, of Salt Lake City. Candidates Knotted In Brazil Election Rio De Janeiro (U.R) Ad- hemar de Barros, millionaire in dustrialist, and his Communist backed Social Democratic op ponent, Juscelino Kubitschek, ran neck and neck in mounting returns from Monday's presi dential elections in Brazil. .The Army supported candidate was in third place. , Tabulation of about one fourth of the estimated 10,000,000 votes gave de Barros, Social Progres sive party, 788,218 votes; Kubit schek, Social Democratic party, 764,197; and Gen. Juarez Tavora, National Democratic Union, 710,- 298. '" ------ Ashland Church Gets Pastor From Salem Salem (U.R) Rev. B. J. Hol land will leave Salem to' become pastor - of First Presbyterian church in Ashland Nov. 1. Rev. Holland, a graduate of Presby terian seminary of Dubuque, has been assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Salem for four years. State .Sen. Pat Lonergan of Portland, Lonergan is chairman of the legislative interim com mittee which is studying propos ed changes in Oregon's corrupt practices and election laws. , Among other things sought were an end to the requirement that a citizen vote only in the precinct where he lives and that he must have lived there 300 days when voting. Establishment of . numerous and accessible ragiatratioa plao- shortly before 11 a.m. (PST), ap Work on.Projec! To Build Artificial Satellite Starts Washington -U.R) The De fense Department announced to day that "work has begun" on the project to hurl a small arti ficial satellite into far space to circle the Earth. ? i ' The department said the Glenn L. Martin Co., Baltimore. has been awarded the prime con tract for "a major part of the project," development of a' rock-.-'' et launching vehicle. . Glenn L. Martin is the builder of the Viking rocket which holds the world altitude record of 158 miles for a single-stage rocket. GE lo Supply Motor The General Electric Co., the department said, will supply the rocket motor which will be used .1 in the first stage of pushing the satellite, which is expected to be about the size of a basketball, into outer space. The department said that other important parts of the launching vehicle will come from different industrial sources. The Defense Department an nouncement liftpfl snme nf thtk secrecy around the space satel lite project, first announced by the White House on July 29. ' The earth satellite, perhaps the forerunner of space travel by humans, is due to be launch ed sometime in 1957-58. It has been given the name of Project Vanguard. ' - Leo Hernandez Hurt In Fight at Tavern Leo Hernandez, 35, of 322 South Riverside ave., was stabbed last night during a fight at the Casino taverri, according to city police. : Hernandez was taken by po lice officers to Sacred Heart hospital where he was treated for a minor wound and released. Troy Legate, 70, Crater hotel, told police the fight was started by Hernandez. The two reported ly fought for a short time after which Hernandez left but re turned a few minutes later and began fighting with, Legate again, according to reports made to city police. During the scuffle, Hernandez was stabbed in the chest with. a pocket knife, police were told. Legate was sentenced to 20 days in jail on a charge of being drunk in public. " Weather rOBECAST: Variable hlfh ' cloudiness tonight. Mostly cloudy Friday with chance . of scattered rain showers. Low tonifht 38. High Tti-- l Temp. Highest Yesterday 64 , Lowest this Morning 12 es, allowing voters at least four hours off at one time while polls are open and registration by mail with later verification of resi dence were among other things , suggested. ... - A limit of the amount of money that may be spent on any candidate and a requirement that individuals making political con tributions show their principal source of income alio war uf-gaatod. - & i 1 - W -
