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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.
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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.'
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