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Newspaper Page Text1-.' o I- p. -J Subscribers Recommended A pictorial nmmary mt build ing eo attraction in Jack fen county appear m we 11 of today'! Mall Tribune. To report improper or nea-4eHv cry of the Mail Tribune phone 3-8141 before e:4S pjn. dally and 1030 a.m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrive! short ly after you call please notify otaes thus ellminatuK special messenfer service. ffiUNE United Press Full Leased vyire United Press full Leased Wire 51st Year 28 Paget MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 1956 Price 5c No. 81. Boys Flee Summer Camps in Wake of Torrential Rains Lightning Starts Oil Fire in Texas By UNITED PRESS Flash floods sent hundreds of boys fleeing from Pennsylvania summer camps Saturday and lightning triggered a huge oil tank fire in Texas. The storms, thrown up by a battle between cool air and a two-week heat wave, raged from the Southwest, to the Appala chian Mountains. The torrential rains in Penn sylvania's Lawrence County sent little Slippery Rock Creek roar ing three feet high down U.5. Route 19 "like a rapids." Big Kashannock Creek also over flowed. Hundreds of boys were evacu ated from summer camps in the areal The floodwaters washed out at least five small bridges, carried away boulders, logs and debris, and cut off some roads leading into the college town of Slipper Rock. Hundreds of volunteer fire men, state police and civil de fense workers turned out. They warned residents of summer cot tages and campers to get out of the area and turned back frame. Warnings were sent out to rural residents to be on their guard. A freak storm sent lightning bolts lashing down to two 55,- 000-barrel oil tanks near Mid land, Tex. They broke into flam es almost simultaneously. Firemen fought to keep the flames from spreading to adja cent tanks on the sprawling Magnolia Petroleum Co. tank farm. Hundreds of motorists blocked streets and roads in the area, slowing down Midland firemen trying to get to the blaze. The storm poured won 1.5 inches of rain on the powder dry city of Midland in less than an hour, sending waters pouring over the street curbs. Up to seven inches of rain, some the heaviest since 1932, drenched Indiana Friday and more was expected today. At Indianapolis, the front half of a brick two-story building near the Statehouse collapsed "like a little earthquake" dur ing a downpour. Five of the 25 persons Inside were injured. A contractor working on the build ing said the rains probably weakened the walls. It was the second night of vio lent weather in the Midlands. Weathermen blamed the out break on a marathon heat wave's last ditch fight to stay on. Six Drown As Boal Tips Over in Utah Scofield. Utah J.R oersons. including three 5ix chil dren, drowned Saturday when a windstorm tipped over their boat while fishing on Scofield reser voir in central Utah. Two others in the boat were able to swim to safety. The victims were identified as John Kanakis, 30, his 29-year old wife. Yolanda, their three chil dren, John 9, Connie 7, and Gust 4. and Angelo Kanakis, 18, a younger brother of John. All were from Price, Utah, a coal mining community about 25 miles southwest of the isolated mountain reservoir. Lynn Kanakis, 14, and Charles Swasey. 31. also of Price, swam to safety. ' Mrs. Kanakis was pulled from the waters of the deep reservoir shortly after the mishap. She still had a feeble pulse when res cued but died shortly afterward. ' Law officers with grappling hooks were probing from boats for the other victims: Sports Bulletins VaneouTr, B. C. (U P.) Jim McDonald's seven-hitter combined with a two-run eighth-inning uprising gave the Vancouver Mounties a 2-1 lead in their series against the) Portland Beavers last night as lhey won the last half of their Pacific Coast baseball twin bill 3-1. Third Baseman Bill Martell. newest addition la the team, broke a 5-all deadlock with a basee-loaded homer last night as the Medford Cheney Studs downed the Bend Log gers 10 to 5 in a Southern Oregon League baseball game. Victory gave the Studs a 2 up edge in their week end series at the fairgrounds dia mond here. Series conduder is slated for 2 p-m. today. Medford wem I to 1 yeetorday afbernooa. COMRADES AGAIN Yugoslav President Tito (right) shakes hands with Soviet Union President Klimenti Voroshilov at Mos cow's Kiev station just before starting on return trip to his home land. Watching between them is Russian Communist Boss Nikita Khrushchev. Tito wound up his visit to Russia by signing pacts of "cooperation" with Soviet leaders. Rural School Board Approves New Levy A total levy of $1,404,257.38 for the year 1956-57 was ap proved by the Jackson county rural school board at its last meeting of the year Friday. Glenn Smith. Lyle Van Scoy, and Alf. B. Mekvold were re elected as chairman, vice chair man, and the secretary of the board for the coming year. The board canvassed results of the election of new board members and verified results as: zone three (Lone Pine district 10 and Howard district 100). Paul Gasparati, 79 votes; zone four (Jacksonville district 1, Griffin Creek district 2, Ruch district 3, Applegate district 40 Oak Grove district 69, and West Side district 95), Glenn Smith, incumbent, 121 votes; zone five (Pinehurst district 94. and Tal ents district 22), John Spangler, 60 votes. Five districts were allocated sums amounting to $7,427.87 in emergency funds. The districts were Jacksonville number l Talent number 22. Rogue River Cydms Governor Back From London Nicosia! Cyprus (U.R) Cyprus Gov. Sir John Harding arrived back from London Saturday1, possibly with a new British plan for the future of this strife torn island. British security forces cordon ed off the airport to prevent attacks on Harding by pro Greek Cypriots. Harding, who had been away from Cyprus 20 days, refused to comment at the airport on his trip. But a statement issued later by government house quoted him as saying the British gov ernment would make a state ment soon on his talks in Lond on with Prime Minister Anthony Eden and other British officials. He said he had "full discus sions with taen ana ouiei British ministers and they were "all in full agreement on the position" Britain should take on Cyprus. Leaders of the U.S., British, Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cyproit communities crowded St Paul's Anglican Church here vesterday for a memorial service for U.S. vice-consul William f. Boteler. killed in a bombing attack last Saturday. The 26-year-old Boteler was the first American to die in the violence spearheaded by the underground Eoka organization He was killed by a bomB tossed into the "Little Soho" restur ant here. Weather Forecast: CletT to partly flout. with mild temperatures through Mondiv. Hlth Sundiv 7. Lw Sunday night 45. Hih Monday xn. TEMPERATURE HithfA ytfrdv ' Lowest yesterday 4 Our Skies Tonight Sun r is , ." 4:35 a.m. Sunsrt 7:53 p.m. The Moon rise 8:9 p.m. and hi in Apte. PROMINENT STAR Arrrums. hijh in southwest $:3T p m. will hi in the wet at midnight. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, in the et 9'W p-m. Sararm. in the south .. 9:40 p.m. Mar;, in the tmitheist 2:10 am. number 35, Applegate number 40. and Shady Cove number 89. Final arrangements were made for the two special classes for slow learning children to be conducted at the Talent elem entary building. Board members present were Alf B. Mekvold, county super intendent of schools, Glenn Smith, William Starsinger, Lyle Van Scoy, H. F. Padgham, Paul Gasparati. and John Spangler. Wind, Rain Delay Tests of H-Bomb Honolulu (U.R) Erratic winds and rainstorms apparent ly have been forcing postpone ment of what observers believe will be "the most interesting" test of the current H-bomb series at the Pacific proving grounds. The Honolulu Advertiser said Saturday it learned that winds in the Bikini-Eniwetok area had been blowing from the wrong direction" since the arrival of Atomic energy chief Lewis L. Strauss and central intelligence boss Allen Dulles. The newspaper sent a series of questions to Strauss and Dulles through Joint Atomic Task Force Seven, but Task Force Com mander Rear Adm. B. Hall Han. Ion teplied: "Chairman Strauss will not be able to consider your questions until after his return to Washington." The questions dealt with se curity leaks which occurred since the May 21 H-bomb explosion. Although the Advertiser did not get answers to its questions, it said it learned that weather conditions "make it highly im probable" that Strauss and Dulles will witness any new H bomb tests. U.S. Offers Help in Building Aswan Dam Washington (U.R) The Unit ed States has told Egypt "quite recently" that its offer to help build the giant Aswan dam still stands' despite pro-Soviet ac tions of Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser; it was learned Saturday. Informed sources said the United States reaffirmed its of fer to help harness the Nile just before Dmitri Shepilov, new Russian foreign minister, arriv ed in Cairo last week on a "good will mission." Land Exchange to Affect 61,000 Approximately 61,000 acres of land in Jackson county and 6,000 in Klamath county will be af fected by the federal land ex change order signed in Wash ington Thursday, according to Jack Wood, supervisor of the Rogue River National forest. The order, signed by secretar ies of agriculture and interior, authorized the two agencies to exchange certain lands under thier respective administrations. A total of 241.137 acres of na tional forest lands and 242,734 acres of revested Oregon and California railroad grant lands in 13 Oregon counties are involved in the exchange. The lands exchanged have formed a checkerboard pattern with the forest service adminis tering the even number sections and the bureau of land manage- ment, tha odd. Tta exchaag AF Officers Arrive In Moscow to See Soviet Airpower Twining, Party Get No Fanfare on Arrival Moscow (U.R) U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Nathan T. Twining and six lower-ranking air force officers arrived with out fanfare Saturday for an eight-day "look and listen" size up of Soviet airpower. The seven American officers touched down for the unprece dented visit at Moscow's Vnu kovo airport aboard a shining DC-6 four-engine military trans port. There were no bands, dec orations or flags. Twining Greeted Soviet Deputy Defense Min ister Marshal Ivan - S. Konev greeted Twining who was first out of the plane, looking fresh in crisp suntans. A crowd of 200 Russians gaped from behind a fence. Moments later, a British Com et II jetliner shrieked in for a landing at Vnukovo carrying British Secretary of State for Air Nigel Birch for the big Rus sian air show tomorrow. French Gen. Paul Bailly was en route to represent his nation. Twining summed up the pur pose of the visit in a planeside statement. "My group will look and lis ten and I am sure we will bene fit a great deal," he said. "After that we will report to the presi dent and the pentagon and through them, to the general public." The U.S. plane flew in from Berlin with a Russian naviga tor, radio operator and two in terpreters. Strike Deadline Set For Airline Pilots Chicago (U.R) The Air Line Pilot's Association AFL-CIO has set a strike deadline of one minute before midnight June 27 against West Coast Airlines, which operates in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. Union President Clarence Sayen said the strike date was set after negotiations over a five-month period failed to pro duce agreement on a pension plan and a wage boost. The union refused to reveal the wage demands but described the rates now paid by West Coast Airlines as "substandard and infefior." Increased Fares Are Authorized for Busses Salem (U.R) . The Oregon public utilities commissioner said Saturday that Pacific Grey hound and Pacific Trailways bus lines had been authorized to increase fares 15 per cent as partial relief from operating losses. Northwest Greyhound will be allowed a six per cent increase starting after July 10. Commis sioner Charles Heltzel said the increases would not cover the full losses sustained by the three lines. Coast Guard Tug Goes To Rescue of Freighter Los Angeles U.R) The. 7,000-ton' freighter Venus last night awaited arrival of a tug sent to its rescue after the Lib erty ship encountered fuel line trouble some 116 miles west of Los Angeles'! harbor, the Coast Guard said. ' The ship, sailing under the Liberian flag, was enroute here from Honolulu when its fuel lines clogged and it was left without power. fplan was designed to simplify timber sales administration, to reduce expense in maintenance and to reduce confusion over differing procedures, which the two agencies find necessary un der existing laws. Wood explained that these purposes will be accomplished by localizing land administered by one agency in a single area and land administered by the other agency in another single area. The lands became intermin gled after the federal govern ment granted odd sections of land to the Oregon and Califor nia railroad in 1866. The land was revested and given to the Bureau of Land Management to administer after the railroad fail ed to comply with stipulations of the grant. The even sections had been m- excluded in nation, ioretu uuLj WEEKEND NEGOTIATIONS START Russia Woos Iran, Arab States; Seeks Uranium, Influence Reds Offer Money for Construction of Dam London (U.R! Russia wooed Iran and the Arab States Satur day with chilled caviar and cold cash. In return the Soviets sought uranium, oil and influ ence in the strategic region. Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin and his deputy premiers were en tertained by Yemen officials at a reception in Moscow. Foreign Minister Dmitri Shep ilov talked with Syrian leaders after leaving Egypt where offi cials mulled over his offer of cash to build the high Aswan dam. Russia and Yemen signed a joint communique of friendship and agreement to exchange di plomatic representatives. The communique ended a two-week state visit by Crown Prince Self Ul Islam El Badr. Dickering for Uranium London sources reported that Russia appeared to be dickering for concessions to dig for uran ium and oil in Yemen on the Arabian peninsula. Mining men believe Yemen has both vital commodities, although the coun try is undeveloped. Shepilov and Syrian officials discussed "general questions" on the international situation, par ticularly the Middle East. It is believed in London that the talks will result in Communist arms shipments to Syria similar to those to Egypt. In Iran, a non-Arab state and a member of the Baghdad pact, the Soviets offered technical and other assistance. The Soviet em bassy -in Tehran said Russia wanted only to be friends -with its southern neighbor and had aid to give "without any ulterior motives or commitments of military or political nature." Bill May Be Tacked On Arkansas Work Washington (U.R) Spon sors of the controversial federal Hells Canyon Dam bill consider ed a move Saturday to tack it onto legislation sponsored by the administration. A source said a maneuver is being discussed to bring up in the Senate first a bill to author ize the $156 million Frying Pan Arkansas reclamation project in Colorado. Then a motion would be made to tack on the Hells Canyon measure as a rider. The Hells Canyon bill is prime Democratic objective in this congress. It was sent to the floor by the Senate Interior Com mittee last week. The house In terior Committee takes a second try at getting a vote on a similar bill on Tuesday. Backers of the plan argue it would corral more Republican votes than could be brought in by any other procedure. WIA Officials Approve Passenger Fare Slash Cannes. France U.R) Ex ecutives of World International airlines have approved a 20 per cent slash in trans-Atlantic pas senger fares, unofficial sources reported here last night. However, the executives con firmed only the fact that they ended two days of voting on de mands for reduced fares and other problems facing the air lines. eoverned by the forest, service along with other timber and wa tershed lands from the public do main. The new order stipulates that revested O&C lands' and national forest lands in the exchange be of approximately equal aggre gate value for the over-all ex change. Wood pointed out that value of timber land is determin ed by several factors, including species of timber, condition of the timber and relative accessi bility. According to the ruling, O&C and national forest .lands being exchanged in any one county must be approximately equal in area unless otherwise agreed by the counties concerned. The for est supervisor explained that ex change of an exact equal num ber of acres in some areas is physically impossible. In such cases, he said, u agrtvfflftnt Search Continues for Berserk Ohio Killer Warren," Ohio (U.R) Mem bers of a posse searching for mad killer" Alfred Wilson fired shots Saturday when one saw fleeing figure in a heavily wooded area just outside this city. The Trumbull county sheriffs office said the searcher fired two shots to notify other posse mem bers, acording to instructions. The search party rushed to the area and found footprints of crepe-soled shoes. Wilson, 37, was reported wearing crepe- soled shoes when he began a frenzied auto tour of this area which led to death for three. A posses of SO peace offiers was bolstered by some 1G0 civil ian volunteers armed with rifles', shotguns and clubs. The sher iff's office said all members of the posse had been told to fire into the air as a signal if Wilson were sighted. Resumes Search The man hunt centered in a wild, heavily-wooded section of abandoned quarries. The posses resumed a search of the quarry area at dawn Sat urday in an effort to take the berserk killer dead or alive. Wilson began his rampage of death Thursday night, enraged because his common law wife had left him. He vowed never to be arrested alive. Authorities discounted a sui cide note left in Wilson's aband oned car in the search area on the theory he would not have left the car had he intended to kill himself. The note was addressed to Wilson's estranged common-law wife. Juanita. 37. It read: "I wanted to get you," Juanita. I'm sorry for you. Say goodbye to the kids. I hope to see you in the other world." Held in Protection Mrs. Wilson was held in pro tection custody in Trumbull County Jail with her three chil dren, Alfred Jr., 3; Sandra Louise, 7. and Stril, 13, by a previous marriage. The killer left three victims in his bloody wake since his re lease from Trumbull County Jail Tuesday on $100 bond. He had been held on an assault and battery complaint filed by his wife. When Wilson left the jail he gestured at a pistol a deputy was wearing, saying: "This is the last time you'll arrest me alive. I have one of those things too." Wilson was believed still arm Ike's Reelection Is Important, Doug Says Hood River U.R) Reelec tion of President Eisenhower and putting in office officials who support his program is the most important issue facing the country today, Douglas McKay, Republican nominee for U. S. senator, told a Hood River county fund-raising dinner group Friday night. The former Interior secretary said during the first three years of the Eisenhower ' administra tion labor's share of total na tional income rose to 69 per cent, as compared to 65 per cent in the seven year Truman ad ministration. McKay was introduced to the 200 persons attending the din ner by Phil Hitchcock, his op ponent in the primary election. Acres Here reached by the counties involved and a workable trade is arrang ed. He pointed out, however, that exchanges on the overall statewide basis are worked out on an equal pattern. In Jackson county approxi mately 61,000 acres of land for merly governed by the forest service is being exchanged for about the same amount of land formerly governed by the Bu reau of Land Management. In Klamath county the exchange in volves approximately 6,000 acres each. Wood praised the departments or the decision. "It's the only logical arrangement. It should save a lot of inconvenience and expense for both agencies. The order carries out public law 426 of June 24, 1954, spon sored by Senator Guy Cordon and Representative Harm Ells- iewortn oi Oregon. ed with the German Luger with which he killed two sisters of his estranged wife and a 16- year-old girl. The dead were: Mrs. Hazel Botts, 32, mother of three: Mrs. Geraldine Brown, 30, mother of two, and Nancy Worthington, 16 Leavittsburg, Ohio. Doctor's Say Ike May Leave Walter Reed Hospital Soon Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower's doctors told him Saturday he should be able to leave the hospital in about a week. They gave him this good news during a busy morning in which Mrs Eisenhower talked politics with a member of his staff, and diplomatic matters with Secre tary John Foster Dulles. During the busy schedule in his hospital room the President did nothing to squelch Republi can National Chairman Leonard W. Hall's flat statement Friday that he "hasn't the slightest doubt" the chief executive will run for a second term. Impatient to Leave The president, impatient to leave Walter Reed Army Medi cal center, asked the doctors when he could be discharged. They advised him that if his convalescence from his intesti nal operation two weeks ago Saturday continues at the pres ent rate he could leave "in about a week." - ...... The doctors yesterday cut the deep stitches taken in Mr. Ei senhower's abdomen during the operation. They said the sutures "will be removed within 24 hours." Surface stitches were removed earlier this week. Hagerty said he probably will be able to say early next week where the president will go to recuperate. Mr. Eisenhower's Gettysburg, Pa., farm is regard ed as likely. It has been recom mended by his doctors. Festival Box Office . Hours Are Announced Ashland The Oregon Shakespearean Festival box of fice at the outdoor theater here will be open between 9:30 a m. and 5 p.m. daily except Sunday during June, Mrs. Ralph Mc Culloch, box office chairman, has announced. Sustaining membership may be purchased until July 31, Mrs. McCulloch said. The member ship entitles holders to full vot ing privileges in the Festival as sociation, and entrance to the five plays during August. Festival rehearsals are now in progress. "Cymbeline" and "Ro meo and Juliet" are rehearsed Mondays, Wednesdays and Fri days and "Love's Labour's Lost'M and rucnard 111 are rehearsed Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat urdays. Beginning this week, "Titus Andronicus" will be re hearsed daily between 1 and 2 p.m. "I Feel Fine, Doc. I Just Want An Analysis Of The Political Situation" H Big Three Steel Negotiators Meet In All-Out Effort Length of Contract Stumbling Block New York (U.R) The big three steel wage negotiators met Saturday in another all-out ef fort to break the deadlock which threatens to trigger a crippling steel strike June 30. Representatives of the United Steelworkers of America and the industry's big three U. S. Steel, Bethlehem Steel and Re public Steel appeared relaxed as they began their weekend ne gotiations for a new contract to cover 650,000 steelworkers. The length of the contract ap pears to be one of the major stumbling blocks in current ne gotiations, which began in Pitta burgh May 2. Length Is Issue The companies are holding out for a five-year contract on the grounds it would bring about a stability in the steel industry beneficial to producers and con sumers alike. The union has re jected the contract as "too long." some informed sources here have suggested that a three-year contract or a five-year contract with a wage-reopener at the end of three years may prove tha key for unlocking the present stalemate. . Only one top industry source voiced any note of optimism. He said he believed the negotiators will finally agree to a three-year contract giving a 20-cent an hour increase in the first year. "I don't think either side is willing to torpedo the nation's economic prosperity simply on tne issue of a five-year contract, the source said. Both the United Steelworkers union and the industry's Big Three steel producers have blast, ed each other with practically every adjective in the book. Apparent Tight Deadlock Both sides have accused each other of issuing ultimatums and of refusing to bargain in good faith. They appear tightly dead locked and seem to be bargain ing from irreconcilable positions. The companies have offered a five-year contract calling for a total package increase of 65 cents an hour per man, including a direct wage increase each year averaging 7.3 cents an hour and 52 weeks of layoff pay. Guilty Verdict Is Returned by Jury A district court jury returned " a verdict of guilty against Ro land Albert Maurer, 49, of 4264 Hilsinger rd., Friday afternoon. Maurer was arrested June 2 and charged with driving while under the influence of intoxi cating liquor. He was involved in an auto accident at the Lith ia Drive-In theater at the time of his arrest. He will be sentenced Monday morning. Alan Holmes, deputy district attorney, represented the state and James Main and Stanley Jones Jr., represented the defendant. The case began Thursday morning, going to the jury Fri. day afternoon. The jury delib erated nearly four hours before returning its verdict. . "