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Jury Hear Completion for Trial In Blowing Up of United Airliner ienver ,1 PI Splortinn rt iUTT tri frv TV,V, ---- ham on charges that he blew up an airliner in order to kill his mother for insurance may be completed today. The widely publicized crime o shocked the nation that court observers thought it might take weeks to select a jury acceptable to both prosecution and defense. But by late yesterday,' both ides had agreed tentatively on a panel ef 13 jurors eight men and five women. But both sides are allowed 15 peremptory chal lenges, and each had 14 left af ter yesterday. Could Discharge All Thus, without explanation or argument, either side could dis charge all 13 of the jurors ten tatively selected. Forty-four persons died last Nov. 1 when a United Air Lines DC6B exploded in the air near Longmont, Colo., 11 minutes af ter taking off from Denver, and fell on frigid beet fields. The shattered plane was painstaking ly re-constructed, and experts found clear evidence that a bomb had been planted in a luggage compartment. The Federal Bureau of Invest igation accused Graham, a 24-year-old Denver restaurant op erator and father of two, of the crime. The FBI claimed he con fessed that he fashioned a bomb with a cheap kitchen timing de vice and 25 sticks of dynamite. and hid the bomb in his moth er's luggage before she boarded the doomed plane for Portland, Ore. The FBI said Graham wanted to collect trip insurance on his mother, and that she paid for some of the policies he bought at the airport while the bomb was ticking away. The trial began Monday. Six hundred prospective jurors were summoned to court. Seventy-four of these had been questioned and excused for various reasons by adjournment yesterday. One was an expectant father. Another said he was a fidgeter, and could not sit still during long court sessions. One man was challenged for cause by the defense because he is a Unit ed Air Lines mechanic. Eleven persons were excused yesterday because they do not believe in the death penalty, which the state will demand for Graham. U.S. Becomes Full Member of Baghdad Economic Committee 7U Jftvic TVaxiK? WHEN YOU ASPHALT TILE B FINISHED WTTM fllf Water White - Crystal dear EASY TO APPLY . . . LASTS FOR YEARS... SAFE... NOT SLIPPERY , Nothing can stain or penetrate s Tile Kote Finish. Tile will be grease and oil proof. Just wipe it clean with a damp cloth, dust mop or soap and water to remove grease. Never chips, cracks or becomes yellow with age. JUT M TOUCHED Mr WHEN MEB3& BRUCE BAUER LUMBER CO. 765 S. Riverside Ph. 2-6211 Tehran, Iran (U.R) The United States has become a full member of the Baghdad Pact ec onomic committee, it was an nounced today. This was a step short of full American adherence to the Bagb dad pact as asked by the mem ber nations. But it indicated clearly American backing for the pact as a whole. U. S. membership in the econ omic committee was announced by a spokesman for the Baghdad Pact council, meeting here to study economic aspects of the al liance. Refrains from Joining The United States, one of the prime movers of the "northern tier" defense alliance, has re frained from joining the pact which links Britain, Turkey,-Ir an, Iraq and Pakistan. But the United States sent an observer-delegation to the cur rent meeting of the five-nation economic committee. The dele gation is headed by Loy Hender son, deputy under-secretary of state. The pact members urged the United States to become a full- Delta Park Again Rejected in Portland Portland (U.R) Delta Park, selected, rejected and then re considered as a site for Port land's $8,000,000 recreation cen ter, has been rejected again. A local firm of architects has limited the site choice to three locations South Auditorium, Buckman Field and Broadway Steel Bridge. 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KENTUCKY time member of, the alliance when they opened their meeting here but Henderson pledged only "full American support." Already Supplies Aid The United States already sup plies much of the military and economic aid for the pact mem bers. The pact began as a defense treaty between Iraq and Turkey, signed in Baghdad on Feb. 24, last year In November, the two countries were joined by Brit ain, Iran and Pakistan to form the Baghdad pact itself. The United States sent an observer to the inaugural. The pact nations stretch across the southern borders of Russia, and the Soviet has attacked it as a threat to peace. The Arab non members led by Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia have denounc ed it as a blow, to Arab unity. sub-Un- Musicians To Be Requestioned Los Angeles (U.R) A committee of the House American Activities committee has ordered several Hollywood musicians to be requestioned to morrow about possible Commu nist affiliations. The investigators yesterday temporarily recessed a week-long hearing to fly to Washington to vote on a proposal to override President Eisenhower's veto of the farm bill. Rep. Morgan M. Moulder CD Mo.) ordered all subpoenaed witnesses to be on hand when the session resumes tomorrow. Many witnesses in the two pre vious days of the hearing have hidden behind the First and Fifth amendments in refusing to disclose any Communist ac tivities in local music circles. The congressmen yesterday heard five hours of testimony from a former Soviet spy, Nik olai Khokhlov, 34. He described how the Communist party tries to control the minds of its citi zens through the arts. Committee counsel Frank S. Tavenner said he had the Rus sian appear to show how the Communists use the arts to pro mote their own interests. Testi mony in the hearing so far has revealed that 70 to 75 Holly wood musicians were under Com munist influence as late as 1949. Lincoln Interested In Weapons of War New York (U.R) Abraham Lincoln's curiosity and mechan ical turn of mind made him deeply interested in new and im proved war weapons. In the Civil war the North was experimenting with rockets, and, at a trial Of the Hyde rocket on Nov. 15, 1862, Lincoln's life could have been snuffed out. The President drove to the Navy Yard with Secretary of State Seward and Secretary of the Treasury Chase to see the new weapon. Rear Adm. John A. Dahlgren was with them. Down by the river the eminent visitors gathered around the perforated-ironylinder launch ing tube at which Lt. Cmdr. Mitchell was setting up the test. When the rocket was ready the onlookers stepped a few paces, prepared to see the new weapon zoom up over the river and burst, pocking the water's surface with fragments. Instead came a blast and a puff of fire the rocket had ex ploded in its stand. Not a word of the incident ap peared in any public print, pos sibly due to censorship. The story is brought to light in "Lin coln and the Tools of War," a new book by Robert V. Bruce (Bcbbs-Merrill). Dr. Bruce found mention of it in a laconic official report and an undated, unsigned memo in advertently left between the pages of a Navy Ordnance bu reau manuscript volume entitled "Examination of Inventions." HIGH SCORER Conncord, N. H. (U.R) New Hampshire's 1956 "Queen of the Fari's also reigned over a basket ball court. Patty Buteau, 17, a Lancaster High School senior, scored 1,004 points in four years on the girls' basketball team. South .Dakota ranked among the top 10 beef producing states with over 2,500,00 million head produced in 1955. Two Central Oregon Projects Vin Support Washington (U.R) Two cen tral Oregon reclamation projects, the Crooked river and Wapinitia, received support yesterday be fore a Senate irrigation subcom mittee. Residents of the Prineville, Ore., area said the proposed $6 600,000 Crooked river project was needed for irrigation pur poses. Solons also were told the Juniper division of the Wapinitia project in Wasco county would provide needed water for irriga tion. The subcommittee also heard a request for a measure to au thorize a survey for possible fencing of a government-owned Scientists Probe Chemical Blast Pasadena, Calif. (U.R) Sci entists today began an investi gation into a chemical explo sion that injured a student and rocked the chemistry building at the California Institute of Tech nology. School officials said Marc Sil ver, 22, student from New Ro chelle, N.Y., was conducting a "highly dangerous" experiment yesterday when the explosion Tipped through the third floor of the building. The student canal at Klamath Falls where several persons have drowned. Wednesday, April 18, 1998 MEDFORD fOREOOlf) MAIL TRIBTTKB S5TEX miraculously escaped injury and was treated at Huntington Me morial Hospital for cuts on the head, face, arms and hands. Physicians removed a small piece of glass lodged in one of his eyes. Doctors" believed that his eyesight may have been saved by the fact that he was wearing glasses when a flask containing chemicals exploded. Cal Tech is a center of highly secret work in atomic and jet propulsion research. The school, however, reported that the blast did not involve any materials used in atomic research. Dam age was limited to the experi ment room, where windows were shattered and bottles broken. Siskiyou Jail Escapee Identified by Boots Yreka Fred A. Smith, an es capee from the Siskiyou county jail since April 10 was identified as the owner of a pair of cowboy boots left yesterday in a Hunt er's Gulch cabin. Clothing, a shotgun, and food were taken from the cabin own ed by Lester E. Black, Yreka. Smith is believed to have stol en the clothing to prevent iden tification, and is described as wearing a gray hat, glasses, laced boots, and carrying a pack sack. About 90 per cent of the world rice crop comes from Asia. Inmate of Stockade Lays Trail Too Well Bartow. Fla (U.R) There" one stockade inmate the Polk county sheriff will never call on again to help train his bloodhounds. Henry Thomas Lolt, 32, serving 60 days in the county stockade, was asked lo lay trail for trainer Carl Andrews' bloodhounds io follow. Lett was told to lay the trail, then climb a tree and wait for the hounds to find him. The prisoner did as he was told, except for one thing. 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