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f m I i u am.l..B I HHWyB.;m-.- ) I I', . P i.i i II ii i linn 1 1 ''r -FJ ft MEDF0P Unitea fre&s nil Leased Tribune United Presi Full Leased Wira 51st Year 16 Pages ON, MONDAY, JULY 2, 1956 Price 5c No. 88 BO r$ : - 9 Iwea Poland!. V, 111 F0L1SH WORKERS RISE IN REVOLT Youths armed with bottles and clubs join the ranks of workers in revolt which began outside gigantic trade fair (above) in Poznan, Poland. They are carrying a Polish flag which was dipped in the blood of rioters killed in the revolt. The uprising was termed "the biggest anti-Communist upris ing in a satellite." Communist Poland officially admitted that 38 persons had been kified and 270 wounded in Poznan. U.S. Not Trailing Russia in Air Power, Sec. Wilson Declares Washington (U.R) Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson, taking issue with his Democratic critics and military subordi nates, said today that the United States is not "falling behind Russia in air power. - Wilson, called for the second time .before the Senate Armed Services subcommittee on Air Power, conceded that the Rus sians are "catching up from a very slow beginning. "But I don't happen to think we are falling behind," he said "We are ahead of the Russians and expect to keep it that way." "Ahead in what? asked Sen Henry M. Jackson (D.-Wash.) one of the sharpest critics of the administration's defense pol icies. "In general military strength," Wilson said. Cites Military Opinion Jackson noted. that Gen. Na than F. Twining, Air Force chief of staff, said in a speech last Oc tober that Russia's fleet of com bat planes outnumbers this country s by the thousands. "In your judgment," the sena tor asked Wilson, "is the Soviet ahead of us quantitatively as far as modern jet airplanes are con cerned?" Wilson, referring to top secret information in front of him, re plied: "I would say no." "In total number of airplanes we are ahead," Wilson said. -He Four Submit Bids On Tunnel Project Four bids were submitted to the bureau of reclamation for construction of the Deadwood tunnel in the Talent project be fore the deadline today at 10 a.m. The apparent low bid was re ceived from the E and W Con struction company in Eugene on the schedule two, six foot tun nel. The bid was 5446,994. Another bid was received from the Lewis Hopkins- Con struction company in Pasco, Wash. They submitted a S483, 900 bid on schedule one and a $494,087 .bid on schedule two. Peter Kiewit, ' Denver., Colo., submitted a $664,227.20 bid for schedule two and Northwood Inc., of Portland, submitted a $595,303 bid for schedule two. m The chief engineer of the bu reau of reclamation head office in Denver, estimated the project at $655,795 for schedule one and $620,353 for schedule two. The bids will be awarded at a later date, according to the bu reau of reclamation in Medford. Fire Burns Garage At Trailer Court Fire of undetermined origin burned a garage at the trailer court owned by John Krauss at 4047 South Pacific highway yest erday afternoon, city firemen re ported. The blaze completely involv ed the building which was be ing used as a storage place and the contents were destroyed, ac cording to firemen. Awnings of two trailer houses were damag ed and one side of a house was blistered. A tenant, William Evans, suffered burns on his forehead. The rural pumper was . dis patched to the scene about 4:10 p.m. NO PAPER WEDNESDAY In order thai its employees may observe the July Fourth holiday, the Mail Tribune will not be published on Wednesday. said Twining must have been re ferring to the Air Force alone, and not taking into considera tion the air power of the Navy and U.S. Allies. Wilson also asserted that the U.S. B52 intercontinental jet bomber is "quite superior" to the Russian Bison. Gen. Curtis E. Lemay, commander of the Stra tegic Air Command, has called the two planes "comparable." Jensen Due Back Here for Sentencing James Norman Jensen, con victed of murder, will be re turned to Medford this wee!t from the state penitentiary in Salem for the passage of sen tence and the setting of the exe cution date Friday at 8:30 a.m. Jensen, who was convicted cf murdering Mrs. Fern Hile in 1954,- appealed to the Supreme court for a new trial because of alleged errors during the trial. In the opinion handed down by the higher court, Justice Hall Lusk said, in part: "The trial was a model of fairness both on the part of the presiding judae and of counsel representing the state. The crime charged was conclusively proved and the jury in the end were no doubt con cerned only with the question whether the insanity defense had been established. They deter mined that 'issue adversely to the defendant and that he should pay the extreme penalty for his act. ' Fully conscious of .the re sponsibility resting upon us in a case of this gravity we have no alternative other than to affirm the judgment." The death sentence is manda tory since the jury found Jensen guilty of first degree murder. Hearing on City Budget Set Tuesday The annual public hearing on the Medford city budget for the fiscal . year which started yes terday will be held in conjunc tion with the meeting of the city council Tuesday, starting at 7:30 p.m. The budget totals $610,158, plus a levy of $17,384 for li brary support. Estimated rev enues total $351,999, leaving a proposed tax levy of $247,027, including the library levy. The total amount to be raised by taxation, including the gener al and library funds, is $462,673, and also includes the general bond fund of $68,856, the water bond sinking fund of $36,225, the fire maintenance fund of $88,452, and the park and swim ming pool levy of $22,113. All of these except the first two funds are levies approved by a vote of the people at one time or another in the past. The budget does not exceed the 6 per eent increase limit. Weather FORECAST: Considerable cloud iness through Tuesday. Chance of thunderstorms this evening and Tuesday afternoon. Low to night 48. High Tuesdav 75. TEMPERATURE Highest Yesterday ... . 1 Lowest This Morning 47 Our Skies Tonight 4:3S a.m. Sunset 7 p.m. Moon rise Tuesday 12:36 a.m. in the -constellation, Aries. New Moon July 7 This week Jupiter a&Tain passes to the east of Regulus. And in a few more weeks both the star and the planet will he lost in the rays of the setting sun. Variety of Events To Mark July 4 Holiday in Medford Flying of flags, a fireworks display and a general holiday for working people will high light the celebration of Inde pendence day here Wednesday Holiday outings and private as well as organizational picnics will also be on the July 4 sched ule for many Jackson county residents. City and county offices will be closed for the day as will be Medford banks and nearly all local retail stores. No issue of the Mail Tribune will be pub lished on that day. The municipal swimming pool at Hawthorne park will be open during its regularly 'scheduled hours, 1 to 9 p.m. Darell Huson, director of the pool, said a larger than average July 4 crowd may visit the pool this year since the holiday comes during the middle of the week, giving less time for residents to travel out of the county. Fireworks Display - Climaxing the holiday cele bration here will be the $1,200 fireworks display during the evening at the Medford Senior High school stadium. The show is being sponsored by the YMCA as a fund raising project for the Y camp. Prior to the fireworks display a demonstration will be given by the fire department and the fire and police departments will hold a tug-of-war. Tickets to the display may be obtained from YMCA mem bers and from several Medford businesses. Former Medford Youth Among Crash Victims Stephen Robert Bishop, 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James E. Bishop, Jacksonville, was among the 70 persons aboard the TWA plane- that crashed in the Grand Canyon with no survivors Saturday, it was learned here today. The young crash victim was an office employee for TWA and made his home in Kansas City, Mo. He graduated from Jacksonville High school in 1954 and attended Lincoln school in Medford for several years. Bishop was born Sept. 18, 1936, in Minnesota and moved with his family to Medford in 1942. The family later moved to Jacksonville. While in Medford, Bishop was active in Boy Scout work. He was a member of the Methodist church in Minnesota. Besides his parents, Bishop is survived by one brother, James Jr., now stationed in Japan with the Air Force; four sisters, Mrs. John Woodman, Kansas City, Mo., Mrs. Basil Lewis,' Harrison ville. Mo., and Deanna and Linda Bishop, both at home. His body is to be forwarded to Medford and funeral services will be held at the Conger-Mor ris chapel. City's New Finance Department in Effect The city of Medford's new fi nance department went into ef fect today with the beginning of the new fiscal year, City Man ager Robert Duff reported. - Duff said the previous separ ate offices of city treasurer and recorder have been combined into a single office. He said Dar ell Huson, formerly treasurer, is now finance officer and will as sume duties of both the treasurer and recorder. Yergen and Meyer, local ac counting firm, has set up a new accounting' procedure for the city which calls for several changes and modifications of the old system, the city manager added. Rescue. Into Grand Canyon To Retrieve Bodies Grand Canyon Village U.R) The first five bodies of the 128 victims of the world's worst commercial aviation disaster were helicoptered out of, Grand Canyon today from the scene of Satur day's two-plane crash. A helicopter shuttle service began operating to lift the charred remains from the 6000-foot gorge to the rim of the canyon where they were to be transported in plastic bags to the temporary morgue at the National Guard armory 80 miles away in Flagstaff, Ariz. Grand Canyon Village, Ariz. (U.R) A helicopter rescue-team descended into a death-filled gorge of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado river today to re trieve remains of the bodies of 128 victims of the world's worst commercial plane disaster. The plane carried Acting Cor oner Shelby McCauley, who said he would remain at the site until all bodies are removed. Four cargo helicopters stood by at Winslow, Ariz., to drop into the treacherous canyon to assist in removal of the bodies when clearance was given for the landing by the first plane. The group planned to attempt removal of the 70 bodies from the wreckage of a Trans World Airlines passenger plane which collided with a United Air Lines plane Saturday. The 58 bodies in the UAL wreckage, perched on a sheer cliff a mile away, possibly never will be recovered. Government officii- launched an investigation into the crash to determine for sure whether the two planes collided in mid air in the nations first fatal collision of two airliners and then dropped . into the huge. rocky gash in the Painted Desert. They said there was only a "one-in-ten-million" chance that the two super-airliners met with separate mis haps at the same instant and fell into the gorge. Nona Had a Chance ' Investigators, piecing together all the information available, theorized that the TWA plane, climbing to get out of a storm, flew right into the belly of the UAL plane and both plunged almost straight down and burn ed. None of the 128 persons in either plane had a chance. The wreckage of the TWA plane was spotted Saturday after an anxious daylong search and the shattered remains of the UAL plane were sighted Sunday morning, only about a mile down the colorful canyon carved by the rushing Colorado river. There was no sign of life around the wreckage and a heli copter crew which landed in the gorge later Sunday confirmed that all 128 had died instantly. Ryland said it was "unlikely" that any bodies from the "UAL plane would be recovered. The TWA wreckage is scattered alpng an accessible ledge on Chuar Butte 500 feet above the Colardo river, a raging torrent at that point. But the UAL wreckage is 4,500 feet up virtually sheer Temple Butte and "only on an outside chance" could it be reached even by ex pert mountaineers. CAB Examiner Jack Parshall, Kansas City, listed the growing evidence 'that turned the in vestigators for "a hard look" at the probability of collision: 1 Both planes left Los An geles Saturday morning only three minutes apart, flying parallel courses. Their flight plans ordered them to hold an altitude difference of 1,000 feet 110 feet more than the legal requirements until their courses intersected simultaneous ly above Arizona's picturesque Painted Desert, about 12 miles from the crash scene. 2 TWA pilot Jack Gandy, 42, Mission, Kans., was flying at 17,000 feet according to flight plan when he ran into a weather front and asked to climb to 21,000 feet. CAA denied permission, explaining that the UAL plane already was at that level and close to the TWA plane. 3 Gandy then asked permis sion to fly 1.000 feet over the "weather roof." This request is automatically honored by the CAA to avoid keeping a pilot in weather that may wreck him. 4 There were indications the "weather roof," the typical tum bling thunderhead turbulence on Arizona's summer desert re gions, was at 20,000 feet, which would have put Gandy up to 21.000 feet. 5 The two planes were due to check in by-radio at the same time, 2:32 p.m. EDT. over the same Painted Desert check point only 12 miles from where the de molished fragment of the air liners were found. esc United Air Lines, TWA Compile List Of Crash Victims Chicago (U.R) United Air Lines headquarters here issued a nearly complete list early to day of the 53 passengers and five crewmen aboard the DC7 airliner that crashed at Grand Canyon, Ariz. The crew members were stewardess es Nancy Kemnitz and Margaret Ann Shoudt. both of Chicago. Capt. R F. Sherley, First Officer R. W. Harms, and Flight Eengineer G. X. Flore, all of Los Anjceles. Passengers aboard, who lived in the Far West, were: Mrs. Rosemary Bishop. Camrillo. Calif. Steven Bishop. 3 months, Camril lo. Carol Church. San Diego. Mrs. Elizabeth Crider. Granada Hills. Calif. Jeffrey Crider. 5. Granada Hills. Miss Lillian Hahn. Los Angeles. Miss Dee Kovack, Long Beach, Calif. Dwight B. Nims, Granada Hills, Calif. Fred Staecker, 11, Long Beach, Calif. ' Miss Roberta Wilde. Los Angeles. New York (U.R) Trans World Airlines in New York today is sued a revised list of the six crew members and 64 passengers who died in the crash ol its Super - Constellation in Grand Canyon, Ariz. The crew members were Jack S. Ganriy. pilot. Mission, Kan.; James H. Ritncr. copilot. Fairmount, Mo.; Forrest D. BreyfoRle, flight engineer, no address; Tracine E. Arniburster. hostess. Los Angeles: Beth Ellis Da vis, hostess. Richfield Springs, N.Y.: and Harry H. Allen, auxiliary flight engineer. Prairie Village, Kan. The passenger list included the following from the Far West: Miss Lillian Carple. Los Angeles. , H. R. Holman. Riverside. Calif. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Hatcher, Ven tura. Calif. Dr. J. Jang. Whittier. Calif. S. R. Joslin. Lomita. Calif. Mrs. H. Laxton and her son, M. Laxton. Redondo Beach. Calif. Miss Mary Ellen Lytel, Long Beach, Calif. ' Mr. and Mrs. J. Maag and their three-week-old daughter, Los Angeles. Donald K. McBain, Long Beach. Calif. Andrew Nasalroad. Van Nuys. Calif. Also listed as living at Paconia. Calif. R. Perisho. Long Beach. Calif. Mrs. J. K. Robinson and sons. Dav id. 11. and Geoffrey, 9, Santa Bar bara, Calif. R. Stontag, Travis Air Force Base, Calif. Bessie Whitman. San Francisco. Chester A. Crewse and his daugh ter. Helen Los Angeles. Gloria Townsend. Los Angeles. Richard M. Payne, his daughter. Monica, 8. and son, Richard, 14, West Los Angeles. Robert Delange. Sun Valley. Calif. Mrs. A. Evans. Los Angeles. Alice Meyer, Los Angeles. Stephen R. Bishop. Kansas City, Mo. Parents live at Jacksonville. Ore. '-Wf IT "77. I flr' ir1 .Tsrami f j CITY SQUATTER With his tnsty shotgtm handy, uranium prospector Earl Sheridan sits in his tent that be pitched on claim he staked out on the main street of Klamath Falls.. Ore. He defied orders from Polke Sgt Odell Olson (right) to get out Sheridan has retained State Senator Harry Boivin to defend him against legal actkffl threatened by the city. "Hey Pravda I Other Industries Feel Steel Strike Effects Pittsburgh (U.R) The steel strike, in its second day, cut into the operations of other major industries today. Railroad and river and lake boat shippers were the first to be hurt as the strike slashed freight shipments. Their opera tions were curtailed and some began layoffs. There was no indication when the United Steelworkers Union and the basic steel producers would resume contract negotia tions which were broken off Sat urday night in New York. . Union President David J. Mc Donald warned the strike by 650,000 union members which began Saturday night would be a "long" one unless the comp anies came up with a better con tract offer. Government Moves In The government moved to try to head off a long walkout. Fed eral Mediation Chief Joseph F. Finnegan talked by telephone from Washington with McDonald and John A; Stephens, chief ne gotiator for U. S. Steel Corp. McDonald's office declined to disclose what was said in the conversation. The Baltimore and Ohio Rail road, heavily dependent on the movement of coal, coke and steel products, said it will furlough about 5000 workers Friday as a result of the steel strike. The layoffs will be systemwide, from New . York to St. Louis, and would be for an indefinite-period. The Reading Co., which serves nearly every steel mill in East ern Pennsylvania, informed 2200 workers they will be laid off if Klamath Prospector Maintains Vigil Over Main Street Claim From Sickbed Reprinting From Us" the steel strike is still on when they return from a two weeks vacation starting Wednesday. . Pennsylvania Railroad, larg est in the nation, said it was studying the situation and would have an announcement later to day. Railroads in the West and Midwest said the effect of the steel strike on their operations would depend on how long it lasts. Some expressed concern over their freight car building programs. Santa Fe, which plans to build 2000 cars this year, said, it, .has only : enough steel for 60 cars. The coal industry, closely re lated with steel, escaped the in itial shock of the strike because of the United Mine Workers' an nual 10-day vacation which started today. For the same rea son, railroads whose chief bus iness is the movement of coal also were not affected immed iately. Display Set Tuesday At Lake or Woods Lake of the Woods A fire works display will be presented here at dusk Tuesday, July 3. The event, which has come to be an annual and traditional af fair, is conducted cooperatively by the Forest Service, the Homeowners association, individ ual donors and the lodge, with donations going to purchase the display. The fireworks are set off from a barge in the lake. This is the third or fourth year the project has been under- taken. Klamath Falls (U.R) Uran ium prospector Earl Sheridan folded his tent on a down town Klamath Falls street to day. He remored his one-man tent from the thoroughfare aft er his attorney. State Sen. Harry Boivin, advised him that no mineral rights were reserved on the property be low the pavement where his Geiger counter had reacted last week. Sheridan, already nearly out of combat with what doc tors diagnosed as an attack of appendicitis, philosophically took the advice of his attor ney that he could reserve no mineral rights beneath the downtown pavement. Klamath Falls, Ore. u.R An attack of appendicitis today forced uranium "prospector Earl Sheridan to maintain his shot gun vigil over his raining claim from a sickbed. Sheridan lay behind the flaps of his tent, which he pitched over the claim he staked out Fri day in the middle of Klamath Falls busiest intersection. Sheridan claims he is an heir of the late George Nurse who founded Linkville, which later became Klamath Falls, now a city of about 17,000. He says that although Nurse deeded the property for the use of streets to the city, be retained Workers Threaten Stoppages as Army Rounds Up Leaders Estimated 1000 Persons Arrested Berlin (U.R) New work stop pages that threatened to blossom into another general strike today hit riot-torn Poznan, Poland. The new stoppages came in the midst of an Army roundup of suspected leaders of last week's three-day uprising. An estimated 1000 persons have been arrested, eyewitnesses reported. Western businessmen arriving in Berlin from the closed Poz nan International Fair said re bellious workers warned they would walk off the job again if I the reign of terror continued. Two armored divisions en forced order in the city and cordoned it off for a relentless manhunt for suspected rebel leaders. Homes Searched . Roadblocks were thrown up around the city. Soldiers with rifles and fixed bayonets made a house to house search and even poked into haystacks in outly ing districts as possible rebel hideouts. Official Polish sources reached in Poznan by telephone said the general strike which started the uprising last Thurs day was over and that factories were operating normally. Western businessmen denied this. They reported hundreds of factory workers have stopped work and more have threatened to do so. Slowdowns Reported Other workers took part in slowdowns, the businessmen re ported. The workers were reported sullen and angry over govern ment plans to try and perhaps execute arrested riot leaders. Men from the two armored divisions, aided by thousands of other soldiers and police, drag ged wounded rebels from hid ing places and left no area of the industrial city unchecked. However, the Poland-East Ger many border remained open. The Polish Military Mission in Ber lin denied it has been closed. Train and car traffic from Poz nan was crossing the border. Visits From Stork Sets Record During June Seventy babies were born at Sacred Heart hospital in June, setting an all-time rec ord for births in one month at that institution. Sacred Heart hospital hat been in operation since 1911. The 70th infant was born on June 30, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hoare, route 1, box 392. Central Point June infants totaled 43, about an average number, at Commu nity hospital. the mineral rights. Sunday the persistent miner suffered an abdominal attack which a physician diagnosed as appendicitis. While an ambulance stood by, Dr. Raymond Tice and two nurses pleaded unsuccessfully with Sheridan to foresake the claim and submit to treatment in a hospital. "I'm not going to leave," Sheridan said. "I've guarded this claim since Friday. There's too much at stake and I'm not going to give it up now." The prospector's attorney, State Sen. Harry Boivin, await ed word from the State Depart ment of Geology. He has asked that group to send experts to analyze the value of the claim before taking any further action. City policemen kept their dis tance from the claim on the ad vice of City Attorney Henry Per kins. He advised them to defer any action until the case has been thoroughly studied. Some property owners were not as willing to wait for action as the city appeared to be, how ever. Mrs. Myrtle L. Brett, mem ber of the Central Hotel Corp.. which -owns property near the claim, has demanded action. "I have received numerous complaints from tenants and passersby," Mrs. Brett protest ed. "If he doesn't leave 1 will instruct our attorney to take ac tion against him.' i
