Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 25, 1956, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextMedford United Preu full tsed Wire 51t Year State Police Still li tigating Fatal Head-On Col.i&.ufl Sunday Three Killed, Five Seriously Injured On Highway 62 Officers to Resume Questioning Survivors State police were attempting today to learn the cause of an Occident early Sunday morning two miles north of Medford on Highway 62, which resulted in death to three memben of an Ashland family. Five other people were hospitalized with serious injuries. The dead were identified as Jim Douglas Baugus, 17, his parents, Chester Douglas Baugus, 45, and Cenetrul Baugus, about 40, all of 257 Third St., Ashland. Fire Injured Injured were passengers in the Baugus car, William Self, 19, Martha Self. 17, and John Jones, 41, all of Ashland, end Everett A. Russell, driver of the other car, and his wife, Willie Mae Russell, 39, Seiad Valley, Calif. State police said their investi gation was complicated by the absence of witnesses to the acci dent, which occurred at about 1:24 a.m. Sunday, near the Delta Waters rd. junction with the Crater Lake highway. Probe Inconclusive The officers said preliminary investigation indicated the Baugus car was southbound and cut left of center on a right curve. The Russell car. north bound, apparently swerved into , the southbound lane to avoid the Baugus vejiicle, when, the Baugus car cut back into the southbound lane. The two cars hit head-on. Officers said investigation so far however is inconclusive and they plan to resume questioning as soon as the victims are able to be interviewed. It is unlikely, thpy said, this morning, that any citation would be issued. Young Baugus. who died at the accident scene, was believed to be operating the car in which he and his parents were killed. Chester Baugus died en route to the hospital and Mrs. Baugus died at the hospital, officers stated. Conditions Listed Russell, Miss Self and Jones were taken to Sacred Heart hos pital and Mrs. Russell and Wil liam Self were taken to Com munity hospital. Russell, suffering from head, chest and neck injuries, was re ported in "fair" condition by hospital attendants this morn ing. Self was said to be in "poor" condition, Mrs. Russell in "serious" condition and the others were listed as "critical." Jones has a fractured left leg and injuries to his left side and Mrs. Russell was reported to have compound fractures of both legs and both arms as weJl as head and chest injuries. Extent of injuries to the Selfs could not be learned this morning. The Bauguses bodies were taken to Ashland Mortuary Svhere services are pending ar rival of relatives from Arkansas and California. Survivors include another son of the couple. Jerry, about 9, a daughter, Janice, about 7, and a nephew, William Baugus, Ash land. Two Young People Injured in Accident Two young people were in jured in a one-auto accident at the intersection of South Oak dale ave. and Dakota ave., Sat urday night, city police reported. Joanne Martha Davis. 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Davis, route 2, box 175, Central Point, received an injured ankle- She was in "fairly good" condi tion at Sacred Heart hospital this morning. The other victim. Donald Im hausen. 18. route 2. box 180, Medford, was released from Sa cred Heart hospital yesterday. Police said the operator of the car ran away from the scene be fore officers arrived. Apparent ly the auto hit the curb on the east side of South Oakdale ave and went out of control, reports indicated. J. C. Scaggs, route 2, box 376D. Medford. was registered as owner of the car. 16 Pages - - - J! V r H 7 e7 1 ft SEEING AMERICA the hard way, Ten Foster, Girl Scout leader of Montclair, N. J., and June Meyer, Baldwin, N. Y, teacher, leave Rockefeller Center in New York to bicycle across country. Large crowd gives sendoff. (International) Steel Industry Head Denies Union Charge Of Figure Estimates New York U.R) A top negotiatorfor the steel industry's big threesaid too"a"y"" any wageTncVcase granted the nation's 650.000 steelworkers will have to be followed by a substantial price in crease. Thomas F. Patton, vice president of Republic Steel, said, "We cannot afford a wage increase that is not followed by a price hike. Prices will have to be raised substantially." New York OI.R) Clifford F. Hood, president of U. S. Steel Corporation, denied today the industry has used "mystical fig ures" in presenting its five-year no-strike contract offer to the United Steelworkers. The union has attacked as "propaganda" and "pure bunk" the industry's estimate that the contract would cost more than 65 cents an hour on a total pack age basis. In a letter to employees. Hood said, "they are sound figures . . . employment cost figures are not mystical figures unrelated to Oregon Mishaps Take Six Lives By UNITED PRESS An automobile accident, a plane crash and a fire accounted for six deaths in Oregon over the week end. Three persons died and five others were hospitalized in the auto collision, which occurred about two miles from Medford on the Crater Lake highway. A small private plane crashed in a residential district of Port land, killing Archie William Payne, 27, and his 24-year-old brother-in-law. Charlfs Parton, both of Portland. The plane barely missed striking homes in the compact residential area. Its engine dead, the craft knifed through telephone wires, sheared off the top of a parked auto, and struck a tree. Preliminary re ports said the plane's gas tank was empty at the time of the crash and there was no power. A fire, apparently erupting from a smouldering daveno. took the life of Shane Michael Frison, year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Frison, Portland. The parents were gone from the apartment for a short time when the fire broke out. Masked Bandit Takes $25,000 From Bank Minneapolis (U.R) A gun man held up a bank in a busy suburban shopping center today and escared with a canvas bag stuffed with an estimated $25, 000. The bandit, covering his face with a blue handkerchief, strolled into .the Park Plaza Bank in St. Louis Park shortly before noon and announced "this tt a stick-up." tn 5 MED gg )N, employee benefits. "Actually they are the yard stick of employment benefits. We do not spend one penny of employment costs that does not result in a benefit to em ployees." Hood said that more than 53 cents an hour out of the esti mated cost of 65 cents an hour will go directly into the steel workers pay check. Over the five-year life of the proposed contract, he said, the steelworkers will receive direct wage increases totaling 36.5 cents per hour. John A. Stephens, chief ne gotiator for U. S. Steel, accus sed union chief David J. Mc Donald of trying "to belittle the offer by talking about a 'nickel increase in net pay'." Stephens said the total adds up to 65 cents an hour "which is a far cry" from McDonald's "nickel an hour." Resume Negotiations In addition, Stephens noted, the companies also have includ ed a cost of living clause in the contract which may swell the total cost of the offer even fur ther. Representatives of the United Steelworkers and the industry's three biggest producers resum ed their deadlocked bargaining talks on a new contract for 650. 000 steelworkers. They declined to comment on the negotiations before resuming their sessions. Twining Delivers Ike's Message; Leaves for Secret Russian Base Moscow (U.R) Gen. Nathan F. Twining today delivered a personal message from Presi dent Eisenhower to Marshal George K. Zhukov and then left Moscow to visit a secret Russian fighter base at Gubinka, 40 miles from Moscow. No Indication of Close Look Twining, the Air Force chief of staff, visited the Gubinka base to inspect the installations but there was no immediate in dication whether he would get a closeup look at the seven new jet planes Russia unveiled Sun day on Soviet Air Force day. . Twining called on Zhukov, the Soviet war minister, today on the first personal courtesy call of his look-see at Russian air might and delivered the President's personal thanks for Zhukov's thoughtfulness during the President's illness. A XT MONDAY, JUNE 25, 1956 Anti-American Coalition Sweeps Iceland Election Parties Dedicated To Ousting Forces' Reykjavik, Island (U.R) A coalition of "oust America" parties today swept to election victories that indicated an abso lute . parliamentary majority dedicaed to the ejection of Am erican forces from Iceland. The Progressive and Social Democrat parties which demand the closing of the huge U. S. Air Force base at Keflavik had gained four seats in the 52-seat Althing (parliament). Prime Minister Olaf Thors' pro-American Independence party had dropped three seats and was clearly losing. Communists at Standstill The Communist party, which had seven seats in the old Alth ing, had neither gained nor lost a seat but the popularity vote was sharply higher than in the 1953 election. Standings in Althing seats with returns in from nine of 28 constituencies: Independents, eight; social Democrats, four; Progressives, two; Communists, two; Nation al Defense, none. One issue was whether the Progressive- Social Democratic coalition could win a large enough majority to do without Communist support. Six Seats Needed A majority of 27 Is needed for control. The Progressives and Social Democrats had 23 seats in the old Althing, but were not then in coalition. Thors' regime held power with 21 seats. It was necessary for the Prime Minister to gain six seats to continue in office and keep the American bases in Ice land as part of 'the NATO de fense system. Some of the seats held by both sides in the old Althing still were being con tested. With an estimated two-thirds of the votes counted, nine con stituencies out of 28 reported resounding advance for the oust America forces, although Thors' party had won in the capital city of Reykjavik. Astoria, Tillamook To Join Police Network Portland (U.R) New law en forcement teletype stations are scheduled to start operation Wednesday at Astoria and Tilla mook. The stations will increase the all-hours state network, which started operations two years ago, to 28 teletype stations serving 53 law enforcement agencies from Portland to Medford and from The Dalles to the sea. Bulletin KitWy. Me. (UP) Fleet A dm. Ernest J. King, who brought the Navy from defeat at Pearl Harbor to victory in World War II died today. It was understood Zhukov asked Twining to relay his re newed best wishes to the Presi dent "from an old soldier and comrade in arms." New Planes Shown The emphasis on the Sunday display was on defense planes but the Soviets hinted they may show off some of their newest jet bombers later. The planes displayed Sunday: 1. Three different delta-winged- fighters that shot past like arrowheads at a speed estimated at 680 miles per hour. 2. Two types of night fighters, apparently modified versions of the Soviet fighter called the Flashlight. 3. A new jet day fighter de signed bv Mikoyan, creater of the MIG15. 4. An Antonev twin-engined transport, presumably powered ' Tribune Price "It's Been Wilson Temporarily Out of Hot Water; Troubles Not Over Quantico. Va. (U.R) Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson has temporarily sailed out of hot water, but his troubles with Congress are far frjm over. He took a boat for Quebec Sunday and will not return to Washington until Wednesday. Behind him. Wilson left a mounting controversy over his use of the word "phony" last week in discussing a Senate move to give the Air Force more money than the administration has requested. Wilson used the word at a Three Businesses Victims of Burglary Three Central Point busi nesses were victims of break and entries Saturday night. Jackson county sheriff's offi cers were investigating today to determine the amounts of money taken. Oregon state police reported to the sheriff's office Saturday evening that the rear door of Cupp's Furniture Barn had been forced open. A short time later, the Central Point police notified the sheriff that the of fice of the Triple Milling com pany had been forcibly entered. While investigating these cases, the sheriff's officers dis covered that the Central Point Lumber company, across the highway from the milling com pany, had been broken into, and an unknown amount of change taken from the safe. Democratic Central Committee to Convene The Jackson County Demo cratic Central committee will meet at 8 p.m. Friday, June 29, for its biennial reorganiza tion meeting, it was announced today by Chairman Bob Boyer. The meeting will be at the La bor Temple, 24 V4 South Grape St. Members of the committee are those precinct committeemen and women who were elected in the May primary election. They have been notified of the meeting by mail, Boyer said. by turbojets, to be used for both military and civilian purposes. The air show was the high light of the program for Twining and other visiting military lead ers but a five-hour reception given by Zhukov gave the visi tors more time to talk with the Soviets and to hear Twining up hold the American arms poli cies. "We know what war means," Twining said. "Our country has proved for many years that our people are peaceful. "We were always late in get ing started at war. We demobi lized after the last war. "Gentlemen, that is what we call real disarmament. We had to build up our armament again at the Korean war and we will not disarm again until we are certain of world-wide - arma- ments control." United Press Full Leased Wire 5c No. 82 Charming" news conference Thursday dur ing his annual three-day confer ence at the Quantico Marine base with ' defense officials. On Saturday, after a storm of criti cism against him had broken out in Congress, he said at an other press conference that re porters either "partly" misquot ed him or "misunderstood" him. The defense secretary said he didn't mean to characterize sen ators when he used the word "phony." But the retraction didn't stop criticism of him by senators. Sen. Henry M. Jackson CD Wash.) said in a speech prepared for Senate delivery today that Wilson's remark "fits the pat tern of error which has marked his approach to our military requirements." And Sen. Styles Bridges (R N.H.) said that Wilson's explana tion that he was either misun derstood or partly misquoted was "rather weak." Bridges said Wilson should be "more careful about some of the statements he is prone to make." But he said he- disagreed with Democrats who have demanded that .Wilson resign. Remark Campaign Ammunition Bridges said Wilson gave the Democrats campaign arimuni tion by his remark and pre dicted that it will be discussed "from every political platform on- which a Democrat speaks" from now until the November elections. In the House, Democratic Leader John W. McCormack (Mass.) told the United Press that he also disagrees with the Democrats who have been de manding Wilson's ouster. McCor mack explained with a grin that he thinks- Wilson is "too good a political asset to the Demo cratic party." Next Friday Wilson is sched uled to appear before a Senate Air Power subcommittee to ex plain what he meant in using the word "phony." The subcom mittee is headed by Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.). Symington last week charged that Wilson has outlived his usefulness as a cabinet officer. Judge, Commissioner See Detention Homes County Judge Rodney Keat ing and Commissioner C. H. Wendt have returned from a trip through the state inspecting juvenile detention homes. They said many ideas on types of construction and training were noted. They also mention ed that homes which had admin istration departments in the same building as the home seem ed better equipped to counsel juveniles. William Seibert, Medford architect for the proposed Jack son county juvenile detention home, was finable to make the trip. He plans to inspect some of the juvenile detention homes this week. Judge Who Sentenced Cypriots Felled by Shots Nicosia, Cyprus !U.R Cy priot gunmen today shot down a British judge who recently sen tenced two Cypriots to hang. Judge Bernard Shaw was ser iously wounded by a bullet from a fusillade fired point blank at him near the Nicosia Courthouse steps. Ike Slates Plane Trip To Panama Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower plans to fly to Pan ama late in July for a meeting with presidents of American states. He has postponed his scheduled meeting with Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Ne hru in early July. Mr. Eisenhower plans to leave Walter Reed hospital and go to his farm at Gettysburg, Pa., this week end. The Eisenhowers will cele brate their 40th wedding anni versary next Sunday at the farm. Press Secretary James C. Hag erty said the President and Mrs. Eisenhower would stay at the farm longer than just the week end, but he did not know how long. Telegram From Nehru He said other places have been ruled out as locales for the Pres ident's convalescence from his intestinal operation of June 9. Mr. Eisenhower had been scheduled to confer with Nehru in this vicinity beginning July 7. Nehru, now in London, tele graphed the President that he did not want their proposed talks to "impose an additional strain on you during the con valescence." In reply, the President thank ed Nehru for his "considerate suggestion." He said that al though he plans the "brief trip to Panama ... I cannot be en tirely free from doubt as to whether my recuperation will be far enough advanced by July 7 to have the kind of talks which we both had in mind." Under all these circumstances, the President said, "I am in clined, with truly deep regret, to adopt your considerate sug gestion" that the meeting be postponed. . The President said he hoped the delay in the meeting with Sale Set Thursday On Timber Tracts The -bureau of land manage ment, will hold a timber sale for 11 tracts of Medford district timber, appraised at $1,038,000, Thursday morning in the city hall office. Oral auction bidding will be gin at 10:30 a.m. The sale contains an estimat ed 35 million board feet of tim ber. It is one of the largest tim ber sales ever held in the Med ford district. Seven of the tracts are in the Josephine marketing area, three in the Jackson area, and one in the Klamath area. The smallest one contains 260,000 board-feet and the largest has 9,961,000 board feet of timber. Two of the tracts in the Jack son area are near Butte Falls, one of them containing nearly 10 million and the other 2,250, 000 board fee. The third con sists of about 3,750,000 board feet of salvage timber which was killed or damaged in the Sykes Creek fire last Labor day week end. Most of the trees in the sale are Douglas fir, with varying amounts of ponderosa pine, sug ar pine, incense cedar, white pine. Port Orford cedar, and hemlock varieties included. Agreement Reached On Public Works Bill Washington (U.R) Senate House negotiators announced final agreement today on a $856,727,000 money bill carry ing funds for public projec's in the liscal year starting next Sunday. Congress is expected to complete action on it this week. The bill contains 5455,959, 500 for the Army Engineers for construction work on navigation and flood control projects.' It also includes $131,225,000 for construction and rehabilita tion of reclamation projects. Included in the compromise bill were funds for all of the projects on which the House and Senate were in agreement." The Senate-House negotiators worked out compromise agree ments on the projects on which the Senate and House were in disagreement. Final compromise allotments for the flood control and navi gation projects which had been in dispute include: Oregon Chetco river, $225,- 000; Cougar resenfoir, $1,650, 000; Hills Creek reservoir. $2,125,000: McNary Lock and Dam. $2,823,000; Skipanon chan nel, $185,000. Safeway Increases Retail Coffee Price New York U.Ri Great At lantic & Pacific Tea Co. and Safeway Stores Inc., today boost ed retail prices of their private label coffees three and four cents a pound. Nehru "will not be for long." He asked Nehru to suggest an other date, adding "I assure you it is meant as an urgent invi tation." The meeting with other presi dents of American republics originally was to have been held in Panama June 25 and 26. When Mr. Eisenhower was hospitalized. President Ricardo Arias Espinosa immediately sug gested that the meeting be post poned. Mr. Eisenhower this morning telegraphed Arias his agreement to a July 21-22 meeting. itish Airliner Crashes in Forest; 30 Persons Killed Kano, Nigeria (U.R) A British airliner crashed and burned in the African forest on takeoff from Kano Airport Sun day night, killing 30 of the 45 persons aboard. Minister of Transport Harold Watkinson told the House of Commons in London that only 10 passengers and five crewmen survived the flaming crash into the trees. A spokesman for the British Overseas Airways cor poration confirmed a final to tal of 30 dead. The pancake landing onto the tree tops saved the survivors. Bursts Into Flames The four-engined airliner burst into flames when it crash ed into some trees three miles from Kano runway outside this ancient walled city of Moslem Sheikhs. Airport officials said the plane apparently climbed into a storm cloud as it labored for altitude on takeoff. It lost height and mushed on into the Nigerian forest. The pilot, Capt. Herbert Tom linson, 36, an RAF bomber pilot during the war, pancaked the plane's nose high into the tree tops in a crash landing that cushioned the Impact He sur vived. A BOAC spokesman said ,11, . passengers and five crewmen survived out of the 38 passeng ers and seven crew members aboard. Stewardess Killed Most of the passengers were British or Nigerian. The victims included stewardess Kay Buck ley, 30, County Cork. Ireland, and steward L. A. Ward. Tomlinson lifted the Canadian-designed Argonaut off Kano runway Sunday enroute to Trip oli across the Sahara Desert and to London. One minute later the plane smashed to earth. BOAC said the passengers in cluded 12 women and nine chil dren, three of them infants. British East Africa Man in County Jail Theodore Benjamine Crosby, 21. of Nairobi, British East Africa, is being held in the county jail on charges of grand larceny. Crosby was arrested Saturday morning by city police. He is accused of attempting to steal an automobile from the drive way of the residence of Jim Darvin Holhs, 725 South Cen tral ave. After several tries at starting the car, Crosby got out and walked away, police reported. Meanwhile, Hollis called the po lice, and an officer arrested Crosby several blocks from the Hollis house. West Coast Airlines ' Strike Set Wednesday Boise (U.R) Jarl Sormon, Boise manager of West Coast air lines, said today a threatened strike Wednesday would idle 19 pilots and co-pilots throughout Idaho. The Air Line Pilots' Associa tion has said it will call out 65 pilots and co-pilots in a strike against West Coast in Washing ton, Oregon and Idaho. Weather FORECAST: Increasing eloodi nen tonight. Partly cloudy Tuesday. Low tonight 50. High Tuesday 80. , Temp. Hfch'rt ?eerdy 7' Lowest thii morning .......43 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise Sunset Moonrlse 4:35 a m. 7:53 a.m. 9:21 PA Last Quarter Jly 1 Jupiter, sinking in the west, is now the first "star" visible ftr sunset, and Mars, in the south, is now the last "star" to fade out before sunrise.