Medford
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.
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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."
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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.
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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."
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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.