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DEATH PLUNGE This dramatic photo made by an ama
teur photographer shows Italian glider pilot Giuseppe
Zoccola plunging to his death at Turin, Italy. During a
training flight for the forthcoming Italian Glider Flying
Championships, Zoccola's craft suddenly dipped and
: plunged straight to the airfield, hitting the cement build
' c ing in the background. Zoccola died a few minutes after
he was removed from the wreckage.
Wilson Denies Report
Russia Outstripping
U.S. in Air Power
Washington (U.R) Defense
Secretary Charles E. Wilson to
day categorically denied reports
that Russia is "far outstripping"
the United States in air power.
"This is not so," Wilson told
a Senate Appropriations Sub
committee. Wilson also disclosed
that:
1. U.S. production of B52 in
tercontinental jet bombers will
build up to a peak of 20 planes
a month. He did not say when
this peak output will be reached,
but defense sources have indi
cated it will be early in 1958.
2. The armed forces plan to
spend $3,000,000,000 for re
search, development and produc
tion of guided missiles during
the fiscal vear starting next
July 1.
Emphasis on Missiles
Wilson said military buying
will include "large sums for
missiles, particularly ballistic
missiles which have been under
accelerated development for
some time." He said that "all
steps possible" are taken to see
that ballistic missile develop
ment is not hampered.
The services will buy more
than 52.600.000,000 worth of
missiles and spend about $300,
000.000 on missile research in
fiscal 1957. Missiles for air de
fense, such as the Air Force
Falcon, Army Nike, and Navy
Sparrow will come in increasing
Baseba
NATIONAL
Brooklyn B 10 1
Chicago 0 3 0
Newcombe and Walker:
Hacker, Valentinelti (4), Lown
(8) and Landrith; Home runs:
Hodges. Brooklyn.
AMERICAN
Cleveland 3 10 0
New York 4 9 0
Wynn. Narleski (8 and He
gan; Kucks and Berra. Home
runs: Mantle. Howard. Bauer.
New York.
McKay Declares Morse and
Underestimate Oregonians'
Portland U.R) Douglas
McKay today took the broadest
swipes against Sen. Wayne
Morse that he has delivered so
far in his campaign for the Re
publican nomination for ' the
United States Senate.
Speaking before the Holly
wood Lions club luncheon in
Portland, the former secretary
of interior said Morse and Sen.
Richard L. Neuberger, both
Democrats, "underestimate the
intelligence of the people of
Oregon."
Sarena Case To Be Boomerang
He declared that the "Al Sa
rena case will be the most famed
political boomerang in Oregon's
political history. It will boom
erang to Morse's defeat."
He charged that "Wayne
Morse has deliberately for as
sumed political advantage mis
represented facts to the people
of Oregon and the nation." He
added. "I'm ready to document
that charge."
Denying that the Al Sarena
numbers from now on, Wilson
said.
Wilson's testimony came as
the subcommittee began hear
ings on the administration's
$35,900,000,000 military spend
ing budget for the coming fiscal
year. It was clearly intended to
answer Democratic charges that
the budget provides inadequate
funds for air power, and that the
United States is lagging behind
Russia in long range bomber pro
duction and in guided missile
development.
Production Sleppod Up
Referring to "almost daily
stories alleging that the USSR
is far outstripping the United
States in terms of air power,"
Wilson said flatly: "This is not
so."
He then revealed the 20 a
month production goal for the
giant B52 jet bombers which
cost $8,000,000 apiece.
The current production rate
is six a month. A year ago plans
were geared to a peak rate of
12 a month, Wilson said, and
were increased to ' 17. After
President Eisenhower's recent
request for an additional
$248,000,000 for the Air Force
for next year, the rate was in
creased to 20. ...?
Wilson called " his defense
budget "sound, adequate and
appropriate." But he said he
would ask Congress for more if
later conditions warrant.
County Budget Group
Schedules Meeting
Jackson county budget com
mittee will meet Thursday, May
17, at 9 a.m. in the county court
room to continue work on the
county budget for the coming
year.
Salaries for courthouse per
sonnel will be among major top
ics discussed. Anyone interested
in attending the budget meeting
may do so on appointment. Ap
pointments may be made by
calling the county court.
case involved a "giveaway" of
valuable southern Oregon tim
ber as charged by Morse and
Neuberger, McKay quoted from
a report of the Oregon State Tax
commission which said "the
claim is poorly located for tim
ber values" and that it "could
have been shifted in any direc
tion and fallen in much better
timber, both quality-wise and
volume-wise."
Recalls Legislative Act
McKay recalled that the 1951
Oregon Legislature had sent to
Congress a memorial asking that
federal laws be tightened to pre
vent the filing of mining claims
for the purpose of obtaining tim
ber. The former Oregon governor
then declared that Morse had
not in those five years done
anything to implement the Ore
gon memorial. McKay .said a
bill passed by Congress in 1955,
under pressure from the Eisen
hower administration, accomp
lished what Oregon had asked,
Tydings Appears
As Slim Winner
In Maryland Vote
Old Foe Scheduled
For November Contest
Baltimore, Md. (U.R) For-
mer Sen. Millard E. Tydings ap
parently captured the Maryland
Democratic senatorial nomina
tion today by a paper thin mar
gin in the state's primary elee
tion.
Tydings received 130,456 votes
to Baltimore contractor George
Mahoney's 128,178 in nearly
complete unofficial returns. Only
28 of the state's 1,287 precincts
were unreported. Most of them
are in strong Tydings' territory
Prince Georges county near
Washington, D. C.
The former senator claimed
victory. But Mahoney refused to
concede until an official count is
made.
To Face Butler
If the official count upholds
his apparent victory, Tydings
will face his old Republican foe,
Sen. John Marshall Butler, in the
November elections. Tydings lost
the Senate seat he had held for
24 years to Butler in 1950 in a
bitter campaign. The central is
sue was Communist-in-govern-ment
charges by Sen. Joseph R.
McCarthy (R-Wis.).
' Butler won renomination eas
ily over minor Republican op
position. Tydings and Mahoney split
76-76 the Maryland county and
Baltimore city unit votes that
usually decide Maryland pri
maries. Because of the tie, the
popular vote decides the winner.
Mahoney forces apparently
hoped to pick up at least one ad
ditional unit vote in Baltimore
in the official count. That would
give Mahoney . the nomination
despite any slim majority held
by Tydings.
"We are not conceding," a Ma
honey spokesman said. "We are
waiting for the official canvass
of Baltimore."
Hun Far Ahead
In the less significant Mary
land presidential primary, Pres
ident Eisenhower and Sen. Estes
Kefauver (D-Tenn.) far outran
the vote favoring election of Tin
pledged delegations to the GOP
and Democratic national conven
tions. No other presidential can
didates were on either of the
major party ballots.
The Republican state conven
tion later will name national
convention delegates pledged to
cast 24 votes for Mr. Eisenhower.
The Democratic state conven
tion will name delegates pledged
to cast 18 votes for Kefauver.
With 916 precincts reporting,
Mr. Eisenhower received 42,026
votes to 2,804 for an unin
structed delegation.
Official Registration
In County Is 30,406
Official tallies show a total of
30,406 Jackson county residents
have registered to vote in the
May 18 primary, election, the
county elections department an
nounced today.
The official count is 6 under
the unofficial total of 30,414 re
lersed last week.
Unofficial figures showed 16,
253 Republicans had registered,
13,608 Democrats and 553 mis
cellaneous. Election officials
have not broken down the offic
ial tota- into party registrations.
Registration total in the 1952
primary election was 32,822.
Salem (U.R) Robert Lister
of Paulina has been reappointed
by Gov. Elmo Smith as a mem
ber of the State Livestock Ad
visory Committee.
Neuberger
Intelligence
in part, but that Morse had not
sponsored or even co-sponsored
the measure. McKay also cited
Sen. Estes Kefauver's support of
the Al Sarena mining claims.
McKay said he would debate
with Morse in the Portland civic
auditorium, before radio and tel
evision, but he ' said, "it must
first be settled whether Morse
is honest and truthful in what
he tells the people of Oregon."
Tells of Wildlife Refuges
Answering charges that he
gave away wildlife refuges, Mc
Kay told the Portland audience
that he was the first secretary
of interior ever to close refuges
to gas and oil exploration.
"The truth is," he said "that
in contrast with the last Demo
cratic administration, which in
six years abolished 36 refuges
and reduced the reserves by
more than 400,000 acres, this
administration has increased the
number of refuges and the land
area by 97,000 acres."
Medford
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Bomber Crew Holds No Doubt
Of Success of H-Bomb Airdrop
Eniwetok Island (Wednesday) (U.R) The commander of the
B52 that will stage America's first H-bomb airdrop laughingly
says he and his companions "have no doubt about the success of
our mission."
To hear Maj. Gen. David M. C. Critchlow tell it, pioneering the
delivery of the deadliest weapon ever conceived in the fastest in
intercontinental bomber ever made is strictly a "no sweat" assign
ment. The six finely trained and deeply tanned young men who will
be aboard that eight-jet monster with him grinned and nodded
complete agreement. All seemed eager to get on with the job as
soon as the weather permits.
As things stand now, that probably won't be before Saturday,
May 12 (around 10 ajn. Friday, PST).
The H-bomb airdrop, feature shot of this year's nuclear tests
at the Pacific proving ground, was postponed from Tuesday until
Thursday (Wednesday afternoon PST) because of a wind pattern
that would carry radioactive fallout over inhabited parts of the
Marshall islands.
However, test officials doubted the pattern would change to
good shooting weather before the end of the week.
The bomber party six dedicated family men and one bache
lor from Kirtland Air Force base, Albuquerque, N.M. were in
Motions to Amend
Record Filed in
D'Autremont Case
Motions have been filed in the
case of the State of Oregon ver
sus Roy, Ray and Hugh De'Aut
remont requesting the circuit
court to order the record amend
ed in the cases, the Jackson
county district attorney's office
reported today.
The three brothers are now
serving life sentences in . tne
state penitentiary for murder in
connection with a 1923 mail
train robbery in a Siskiyou tun
nel south of Ashland.
Bated on Affidavits -
The motion is based upon af
fidavits, signed by Tennyson
Jefferson,; U. S. Post office, io?
spector on June 23, 1927, the
district attorney said. The affi
davits, he added, declare other
murder indictments against the
three brothers were continued
and proseution thereon post
poned at the. express request of
the three men. They made the
request at the time their con
fessions were given, the DA said.
On April 27, Hugh D'Autre
mont was offered a new trial
on a federal charge of assaulting
a mail clerk. Federal Judge Gus
Solomon set June 5 as date for
the trial, which is to be held
in Medford.
The judge instructed . U. S.
Attorney C, E. Luckey to get in
touch with p'Autremont's law
yer, and determine whether or
not the prisoner wanted a new
trial.
D'Autremont wanted the fed
eral indictment dismissed be
cause it was keeping him from
parole consideration. .
Witnesses Presented
In Tax Evasion Cases
St Louis (U.R) The gov
ernment presented the first of
a long list of witnesses today in
an effort to prove two top Tru
man ' administration officials
conspired with - an attorney to
fix a tax evasion case.
The defendants are Matthew
J. Connelly, White House, ap
pointment secretary for former
President Truman; T. Lamar
Caudle; one time head of the Jus
tice Department's Tax division,
and Harry I. Schwimmer, an at
torney Ernest M. ' Flinn, director of
the Internal Revenue Service's
St. Louis district, led the parade
of government witnesses. He
testified under direct question
ing about the method of conduct
ing income tax . investigations.
Flinn said he began the crimin
al case against Irving Sachs, a
St. Louis shoe broker, from
which the conspiracy charges
grew.
Schwimmer was Sachs' at
torney at the time the case arose
in 1949 Connelly and Caudle
are accused of consipiring with
Schwimmer to help. Sachs es
cape prosecution or a prison,
term.
Medford Man Fined
In District Court
Seely L. Johnston, 42, of 697
west 13th St., was fined $255 in
district court Monday after he
pleaded guilty to a charge of
driving while intoxicated.
His drivers' license was sus
pended for 90 days and he was
given a . 30-day suspended jail
sentence .Johnston was arrested
May 5.
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 8, .1956
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H-BOMBER CREW This is the crew of the B-52 which
will make the first U. S. air drop c! a hydrogen bomb
over Namu Island in the Marshall Islands. Left to right:
Aircraft Cmdr. Maj. David Critchlow, Sacramento, Calif.;
Eilot, Maj. Charles-T. Smith, Pittsburg, Kan.; navigator
ombardier, Maj. Dwight Durner, Charlotte, Mich.; navigator-weaponeer,
Maj. Floyd Amundsen, Grand Forks,
N. D.; timer,- 1st Lt. William Payne, Plainview, Tex.;
radf- mechanic, TSgt. Richard Bingham, Pearlsburg,
Va.,nd observer, Col Paul WignalL Port Arthur, Tex.
GOP Leaders See Good
Chance for Farm Bill
Washington U.R) Repub
lican congressional leaders told
President Eisenhower today the
outlook is good for passage of a
new farm bill that will be satis
factory to him.
They offered that assurance
at their weekly White House leg
islative conference with the
chief executive.
Now Before Committee
The House last week passed a
"second try" farm bill. It is built
around Mr. Eisenhower's $1,
200,000,000 soil bank program,
but omits a return to rigid high
price supports which prompted
Mr. Eisenhower to veto the ear
lier farm bill. The new bill is
now before the Senate Agricul
ture committee.
Senate GOP leader William
F. Knowland said he is hopeful
that the Senate will approve the
bill in a form satisfactory to the
Weather
FORECAST: Mostly cloudy with
scattered showers tonight and
Wednesday morning. Partly
cloudy Wednesday afternoon
and evening. Low tonight
High Wednesday JO.
Temp.
Highest yesterday 57
Lowest this Morning 4S
Free, to 4:30 a.m. Today 02
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
.4:58 a.m.
. 7:19 p.m.
Sunset
Mnonrit Wednesday ..4:11 a.m.
New Moon
..Thursday a.m.
PROMINENT STARS
Alphard, in southwest 9:05 p.m.
Regulus, high above Alphard.
To the right of Regulus is the
planet, Jupiter, which . will
steadily move nearer Regulus
for the next two months.
Regulus, high above Alphard.
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terviewed yesterday in a group of the Eniwetok air strip by the
first newsmen ever admitted to the proving ground in 10 years.
The official code name their B52 will bear when it takes off
for the bomb run over little Namu island in Bikini atoll is a secret.
But chivvied by newsmen, the 36-year-old Critchlow agreed to
nickname it the "Barbara-Grace" after his wife and mother.
Rear Adm. B. Hall Hanlon, commander of the atomic task
force, sharply limited the kind of questions newsmen could ask
the fliers. He ruled out all questions on their psychological feel
ings, the feelings of their families, the weapon and about the tech
nical details of its deliver'.
- Hanlon also refused to set up the conference unless reporters
agreed to let task force information officials censor their copy for
inadvertent slips. It was the only incident of the kind newsmen
have run into, and they agreed to the restrictions.
The crew has been here less than a month, but it had been
practicing for its mission several months before that. It had made
many drops of dummy bombs built to simulate the weapon they
will drop at Bikini.
With the exception of an official task force observer Col. Paul
R. Wignall all of the crew are members of the 4925th Test Group
(atomic) of the Air Research and Development command.
Critchlow is native of Durkee, Ore., and a veteran of World
War II and the Berlin airlift. . ,
administration in other words,
without loading it up with
amendments unsatisfactory to
the President.
Both Knowland and House
GOP leader Joseph W. Martin
Jr. forecast that Congress 'would
wind up its work and adjourn
for the year by July 15. They
said "excellent progress" is be
ing made in both chambers on
appropriations bills, which us
ually determine the adjourn
ment date.
Senate Democrats from the
Southwest meanwhile disagreed
over a key feature of the House
farm bill which "would increase
price supports for feed grains
barley, grain sorghums, oats and
rye from 70 per cent of parity
to 81.5 per cent.
Firemen Inspect 142
Homes Here Yesterday .
During the first day of home
inspections by the Medford fire
department yesterday, 51 of 142
homes were reported to be free
from conditions which normally
cause fires, the fire department
has announced.
At the other 91 homes, fire
men issued 216 recommenda
tions for correction of unsafe
conditions.
Truman Slices Cake
On 72nd Birthday
Independence, Mo. - (U.R)
Former President Truman sliced
a cake today on the station plat
form in a brief recognition of his
72nd birthday before he and Mrs.
Truman left on the first leg of
a trip to Europe.
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Hitchcock to Speak
Al GOP Candidates
NightaiYMCAHere
Former State Sen. Phil Hitch
cock will speak at a candidates
night of the Jackson County
Young Republicans at 8 p.m.
today at the Medford YMCA.
The meeting is open to the
public.
Hitchcock, candidate for the
Republican nomination for U.S.
senator, is to arrive at the Med
ford airport flying his own plane
late this afternoon.-
Hitchcock will speak on tele
vision at 9:30 p.m., with a tele
phone question and answer pe
riod following his short talk, ac
cording to Robert Rukovina,
chairman of the Jackson County
Hitchcock for "Senator commit
tee. Medford Attorney William
McAllister will introduce the
candidate.
Tomorrow, Hitchcock will
meet Ashland Republicans at
a "coffee hour" at 8 ' a.m. in
Hathaway house. He will leave
the Medford airport at 10:30 a.m.
after visits to the Tucker Sno
Cat corporation and Bear Creek
orchards, and is to be in Eugene
for a noon meeting.
Firearms Training
School Starts Here
A two-day firearms training
school for members of law en
forcement agencies in Jackson
and Josephine counties is under
way at the Camp White National
Guard pistol range. '
An FBI agent from Portland
is instructor. Sessions start at
9 a.m. and end at 4 p.m. today
and tomorrow. Police Chief
Charles Champlin said the
school will cover use of the
standard police side arm, the .38
caliber revolver; the riot gun,
12 guage shot gun; and the .30
caliber rifle.
Champlin said about 45 offi
cers are expected to attend the
school, which is being sponsored
by the Medford police depart
ment. New York (U.R) Informed
sources said Curtiss-Wright Corp.
and Studebaker-Packard Corp.
will merge in the near future.
Washington (U.R) President
Eisenhower will hold a press
conference 7 a.m. (PST) tomorrow.
Site Near Salem Selected
For New Penal Institution
Salem U.R) The State Board
of Control today chose a site five
miles southeast of Salem on
state cottage farm property for
construction of the $4,800,000
intermediate penal institution.
- The 600-acre site is now being
farmed by inmates of . Oregon
State hospital.
Gov. Elmo Smith said prelim
inary plans for the institution
were complete and could be fit
ted neatly into the cottage farm
site.' ,
Will Say Money
The governor estimated build
ing the institution on state-owned
land would save the taxpay
ers some $300,000. He said link
age could be made with state
sewers and that a water system
was assured.
Previously the board had se
lected a location near St. Paul
for the correctional institution,
but the Air Force took the land
Streams Overflow;
At Least 10 Homes
Reported Flooded
Stats Highway
Covered by Water
Prineville (U.R) Central
Oregon's water-starved ranchers
said today they had prayed too
hard for rain and a downpour of
1.12 inches in a 12-hour period
ending this morning forced doz
ens of streams out of their banks
and flooded at least 10 homes in
the southeast section of Prine
ville. .
The Crooked river rose 5V4
feet sine eearly this morning, fed
by five days of steady rainfall.
It was still raining hard at mid
day. Highway Corored
At least eight inches of rushine
flood waters poured across the
state highway between Prine
ville and Post and muddy waters
were backed up to doorsteps of
homes on South Main st. The
rising river caused sewage to
back up and water was standing
from four to eight inches deep
over wide sections of the city.
Streams along Highway 26 to
John Day and Boise, Ida., over
flowed their banks and washed
boulders and debris onto the
pavement about 15 miles east of
Prineville.
Reservoir Filled
Ochoco reservoir was filled
and water was thundering over
tne spillway for the first time in
years. Normal average rainfall
here is 9 inches. Total for the
year to date is 6.55 inches. Mor
than an inch fell since 7 p.m.
yesterday.
Ranchers said the greatest do-
tential threat was Ochoco creek.
And not the larger Crooked riv
er. The creek is now runnintf
bank full and one county bridge
deck was under five inches of
water.
Bend Newspaper
To Support Hitchcock
Bend (U.R) The Bend Bul
letin today took an editorial
stand in favor of the candidal
of Phil Hitchcock for the Repub
lican nomination for United
States senator.
The Bulletin, edited and pub
lished by Robert Chandler, said
its stand was taken "with full
appreciation of the many and
varied public services perform
ed in and for Oregon over the
last 30 plus years" by Douglas
McKay, former governor and
interior secretary who is Hitch
cock's opponent in the May 18
primary election.
The editorial in today's edi
tion of the newspaper said
"Hitchcock, however, represents
a brand of enlightened political
thinking which the Republican
party should welcome. It is the
type of political thinking which.
has been lacking in the Oregon
branch of the Republican party
in recent years."
The paper noted that Hitch
cock's views, given wide circula
tion for the first time the past
few weeks, have been well re
ceived in Oregon.
40-Hour Work Week
Approved in Ashland
Ashland The Ashland city
council has approved a five day
work week, starting June 1, for
city employees.
City hall offices will be open
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday. The city super
intendent's office will be open
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Exceptions to work week
changes will be in the water
and light departments where
each will have two men on duty
when other departments are
closed.
for its new Willamette valley
jet base.
Cottage farm had been ap
proved as the first alternate to
the St. Paul site by Sanford
Bates, national prison authority
who advised the board on the
new institution.
Decision to use the . state
owned property was made fol
lowing a personal inspection by
Gov. Smith, Secretary of State
Earl Newbry and State Treasur
er Sig Unander.
The property is completely
isolated from the prison annex
which is about two airline miles
from cottage farm.
Through two appropriations
made by the legislature, the
Board of Control now has ap
proximately $2,700,000 for the
first unit of the structure.
Board members said construc
tion would be started as soon as
possible.
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