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FLASH FL
20 Buildings Are
Destroyed in 30
Minutes Friday
Several Thousand
Dollars Damage
Mitchell (U.R) Loss in the
flash flood which destroyed
some 20 buildings in the down
town business section of Mitchell
Friday afternoon has been esti
mated by state officials at sev
eral thousand dollars.
The job of assessing the dam
age was carried on Saturday
while stunned residents of this
community of 500 persons be
gan cleaning up the debris left
in the wake of the flood which
In 30 minutes swept through the
town, sending people scurrying
to high land.
Officials said crop damage pro
bably would send the final dam
ase figure higher. Drown fowl
and lambs lay in the middle of
Highway 26.
Bridget Out '
Eleven bridges were reported
washed out. Power and tele
phone communications were dis
rupted, although some service
was expected to be restored be
fore the day was out.
' The destroyed and damaged
buildings were literaly swept
off their foundations. Some
buildings, including a few
homes, were reduced to kindling.
. No deaths were reported. The
only injury reported was to
Brend G. Berg. 15,'. Beaverton,
who miraculously' escaped more
serious injuries.
Leave Car
Berg, and a companion, Eldon
John Thorn. 16, Beaverton, had
just left their car which had
broken down when Thorn saw
the water coming. He yelled
and ran to safety. Berg ran in
another direction and sought
refuge in a building.
"1 hit the door," Berg said.
"It was locked. Then the wall
of water hit me, knocked down
the door and swept 'me inside
the building." He said he was
turned over and over and
thrown out of the building. He
said he manared to keep mov
ing with the stream before he
was able to grab a bush and
climb out on the bank. He suf
fered bruises, but otherwise was
in good condition.
Blast Investigation
Continues by Police
State police reported Saturday
thev have ' some suspects in
the Rogue River bombing June
27, but investigation of the blast
has not been completed.
The bombing occurred be
tween 10 a.id 11 pjn. and caused
minor damage to several build
ings, including the Rogue River
post office and the Rogue River
Times office.
State police, sheriff's officers,
Rogue River police and postal
inspectors are investigating the
incident.
"Situation
Student Admits Part
In Burning Crosses
Washington (U.R) A Uni
versity of Virginia student Sat
urday admitted planting fiery
crosses in front of the residences
of Chief Tustice Earl Warren and
Solicitor General Simon E. Sobe
loff in protest against the Su
preme Court decision on dese
gregation of schools.
Ronald Eugene Rowely, 24,
Arlington, Va., was charged on
two counts of "Kindling a bon
fire between sundown and sun
rise." He forfeited $10 bond on
each count rather than stand
trail for the misdemeanors.
Fiery Crosses
Rowley refused to name any
companions in the burning ol
fiery crosses Friday night before
the residences of Warren, Sobe-
Boyer in Corvallis
For Demo Meeting
Robert A. Boyer, candidate
for Democratic State chairman,
and several other county Dem
ocrats are in Corvallis today for
the reorganization meeting of
the State Democratic commit
tee.
Boyer is chairman of the
Jackson county committee. He
is one of the two announced
candidates for the post to be va
cated by Howard Morgan, Mil-
waukie.
Boyer left Friday .. for Port
land accompanied by Neva
Clark, Jacksonville, county vice-
chairman, and Mrs. Dee New
ton, Ashland, alternate. Mrs. Al
bert Straus, congressional cora
mitteewoman, and Mrs. Boyer
joined them there Saturday.
Many of the voting delegates
were to meet in Portland before
going to the Corvallis meeting.
Chet Lowry, Aloha, Demo
cratic chairman of Washington
county, is the other announced
candidate for state chairman.
Bover will contend with him
and several possible "dark
horse" nominees for the state
chairmanship.
25 Planes Take Part
In Air-Rescue Here
Approximately 25 planes are
ready this morning for the big
gest simulated air search ever
to be held by the Civil Air Patrol
in the Medford area.
Pilots and ground men will be
briefed at 9 p.m. and mock
rescue operations begin immed
iately afterward. Air Force per
sonnel will have placed a search
target somewhere within a 25
mile radius of the airport. The
planes and ground searchers will
fan out in an attempt to find it
as though in an actual ground-
air search.
The public has been invited to
view operations at the airport.
Lt. Robert McCorckle of the
Medford CAP sauadron is in
charge.
Unchanged'1
HITS
MITCHELL
loff , Associate Justice Felix
Frankfurter, Sen. Herbert H.
Lehman (D-N.Y.), and Mrs. Doug
las King, head of the National
Association for the Advancement
of Colored People in Beltsville,
Md.
Police said Rowley surrender
ed voluntarily after the car he
used was traced to his father's
home in Arlington across the
Potomac river in Virginia. A
doorman at the Sheraton-Park
hotel, where Warren and Leh
man live, noted the license num
ber and informed police.
Followed Discussion
Rowley, who attends the Uni
versity of Virgina's Arlington
extension, told police the inci
dent followed a discussion of
public school desegregation.
Rowley's statement confirmed
earlier police reports that the
action's were in protest against
the desegregation decision. War
ren and Frankfurter both partici
pated in the decision. Sobeloff
presented the Goverment's views
on implementing the decision
and is now awaiting Senate con
firmation of his appointment to
a federal judgeship. Lehman has
been a long time foe of school
segregation.
Armed Guard Kept
On British Ship
Pensacola, Fla. (U.R) Two
governments kept an ' armed
guard aboard a British freighter
Saturday during an investiga
tion of the strange disappearance
of the ship's skipper on the high
seas.
The SS Saint Gregory was
placed under guard as soon as
it docked Friday night.
Henry Hilton-Green, of Fillett-
Green Co., agents for the freight
er denied rumors that the cap
tain may have been the victim
of a mutiny.
"There is no indication of any
mass violence,' he said. "It may
have been a case of individual
foul play or he might have just
fallen overboard. The captain
was well liked."
Hilton-Green said the captain
was last seen at 8 o'clock one
night and was missing the fol
lowing morning. The shipping
agent said an investigation was
underway.
Southwest Announces
New Flight South
Southwest Airways Saturday
announced additional service be
tween Medford and San Francis
co via Eureka, effective July 20
according to William Hicks,
SWA's station manager here.
Ihe new flight will serve
Medford with six daily sched
ules, four via Eureka and two
via Sacramento.
New departure times south
bound irom Medford will be 2
p.m. with service to Crescent
City, Eureka, Ukiah, Santa Rosa,
Oakland, and San Francisco;
3:15 p.m. serving Redding, Red
Bluff, Chico, Marysville, Sacra
mento and San Francicso: and
5 p.m. non-stop to San Francisco
from Eureka with continuing
one-plane service to Los Angeles
Phone Three1
To Encourage
A Phone Three week, to en
courage vaccinations against po
lio, was inaugurated today by
the Jackson county chapter of
the National Foundation for In
fantile Paralysis. Mrs. Jack Lew
is, chairman of the 1956 Moth
ers' March, a fund-raising fea
ture of the March of Dimes, is
chairman of the event.
Mrs. Lewis has mailed letters
to 50 persons who assisted her
ia the Mothers' March last Jan
uary. The letters ask that the re
cipients telephone three friends,
urging all in that household
under age 30 to receive the vac
cine. Those friends, in turn, are
asked to telephone three friends,
and so on.
Navy Man Jailed
For Theft, Armed
Robbery, Larceny
George Volney Miller, 19,
Jacskonville, was lodged in the
Jackson county jail at 3:10 a.m.
Saturday on charges of burg
lary, larceny of an auto, armed
robbery and being AWOL from
the U.S. Naval station at Bremer
ton, Wash.
State police officers began
searching the Medford area at
8:26 p.m. Friday after receiv
ing a call from Mrs. Orville
Zimmerman at the Naumes
orchard northeast of Medford.
Mrs. Zimmerman said a 1947
International truck had just been
stolen from the orchard by a
Navy man carying a .22 caliber
rifle.
Four Officers Called
Three officers immediately
went out on the case and a
fourth was called to assist them.
Sheriff's officers, city police and
the California border guard were
also notified.
State policemen approached
Miller about 10 p.m. in the Camp
White area near the old mili
tary rifle range. He had a .30-30
caliber rifle with him.
Questioned by oficers. Miller
admitted stealing the truck
from the Naumes orchard after
burglarizing a .residence occu
pied by Winfield Scott Conaway,
4580 Crater Lake highway,
where he obtained the rifle.
Held at Gunpoint
. He. also told, the- officers -he
had gone to the Dewey W. Bab
cock residence, route 1, box
29K, where he held Babcock at
gunpoint and took $20 and a car.
He said he fled from tne
Bremerton Naval station, where
he had been a prisoner awaiting
court martial on a charge of
assualt with a deadly weapon.
Doctors Caution
Ike About Duties
Gettysburg. Pa. OJ.R) Pres
ident Eisenhower's doctors cau
tioned Saturday that he must
not try to resume full duties
when he returns to the White
House early this week.
On the eve of the Presidents
sixth post-operative week the
doctors reported his recovery
has "gained momentum but
that his increasing activity and
impending return to the White
House "should not signify that
his convalscent period has been
completed."
Just after the President's ab
dominal operation on June 9 his
doctors said thev expected it
would be from "four to six
weeks" before his convales
cence would be over.
White House Press Secretary
James C. Hagerty said Saturday
he exoects it will be "at least"
six weeks.
Four fCiffecf When Air
Force Bomber Crashes
Salina, Kan. U.R) An
Air Force B-47 bomber faltered
on takeoff Friday night and
crashed in flames in a field, kill
ing the four airmen aboard.
The bomber, assigned to the
40th Bomb Wing, Strategic Air
Command, was demolished. ' It
had just left the runway of
Smoky Hill Air Force base.
Week Starts
Vaccine Use
The , age limit for receiving
the vaccine was moved to 30
years Friday by the state board
of health. The state's vaccine sup
ply is now ample to give the
first shot to all persons in the
state in that age group, and ad
ditional supplies of vaccine are
available, according to the state
board of health.
Persons receiving vaccine now
can expect considerable immun
ity against coming polio season,
officials pointed out. Those de
siring vaccinations should con
tact their family doctor.
Mrs. Lewis asked anyone in
terested in promoting the vac
cine to join in the "Phone Three1
campaign, whether or not they
receive the letter.
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CONTROL CENTER The Jackson County
Civil Defense agency has made the building
shown above into a control center and emer
gency headquarters. The building, on Flat Top
rd., was made available by the National
Guard. CD officials said telephone lines and
radio set capable of transmitting with the Sal
em headquarters have been installed, and a
second transmitter and receiver have been
authorized by the county budget. Once com
pleted, the center will be able to contact all
TALENT WORK SLATED SOOH
Forest Receipts Here
Total $1,753,273.75
Receipts from the Rogue Riv
er National forest totaled $1,-
753,273.75, according to Jack
Wood, supervisor.
Receipts from the 19 national
forests of the Pacific Northwest
region were a record breaking
Ike Gets Victory
On Foreign Ai
Washington U.R) Admin
istration forces said Saturday
President Eisenhower's person
al urging won his major victory
on the battered foreign aid pro
gram in the Senate Appropria
tions committee.
The big question now is will
the President's influence make
the victory stick when the $4
billion bill reaches the Senate
floor this week.
The badly-split committee vot
ed 13-8 Friday to restore vir
tually all of the more than $600
million the administration re
quested after the House slashed
the appropriation for the aid
program to $3.4 billion.
The $4 billion appropriations
bill will be brought up for Sen
ate debate next Tuesday or
Wednesday. It faces determined
efforts to cut it on the floor.
Sports Bulletin
Coquille ?The Mediord
Cheney Studs cemeted iheir
position in first placa last
night by taking ih second
game of a double header 7-1
over Coquille here. The Studs
got 11' hits including a double
and triple by outfielder Terry
Maddox and singles by Twink
Peterson and hurler Don
White.
Vancouver, B. C. U.R)
The Vancouver Mounties be
hind the 7-hit pitching of Fred
Baczewski swept a double
header from the Sacramento
Solons in Pacific coast league
play here last night by beat
ing them 4-1 after a 5-0 after
noon conquest.
Portland (U.R) The San
Diego Padres evened their
Pacific Coast league series
with Portland at 1-1 last night
as they posted a 4-3 win.
Weather
FORECAST Fair through Mon
dav. Continued warm. Hinh
today 92. Low tonight 54.
High Monday 93-94.
Highest yesterday
Lowest yesterday
5
59
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise '. . . 4:4S a.m.
Sunset J:47 p.m.
Moonset Midnieht
Full Moon July 22
VISIBLE PLANETS
Saturn, due south at :14 p.m.
is now about 872,000,000 miles
from the Earth.
Jupiter, sets 9:13 p.m.
Mars, rises 10:57 p.m.
Venus, rises 3:14 a.m.
total of about $54,000,000 for
the fiscal year ending June 30,
according to Regional Forester
J. Herbert Stone, Portland. This
is about S16.000.000 greater
than the record for last fiscal
year, he said.
-nibs' ?Willamtte-National '"for
est topped all other forests in
Oregon and Washington with
receipts totaling $8,524,867,
Stone said.
Increasing Volumes
Sales of increasing volumes
of national forest timber ac
counted for $53,500,000 of the
total return, he added. Livestock
grazing, power fees, and other
land uses made up the $500,000
balance.
A year ago, Stone said, re
ceipts from the Pacific North
west region amounted to 49 per
cent of the returns from all na
tional forests in the United
States.
He commented that last year's
total of $38 million to the U. S.
Treasury indicated a cash re
turn to counties within the na
tional forests of $9,603,162. Bas
ed on a similar 25 per cent re
turn. Stone pointed out that the
counties this year will share in
distribution of about $13,500,
000. .
The actual payment to each
county must await the final
checking of receipts, forest by
forest, and state ' by state, he
said.
New Fire Reported
In Applegate Area ,
Only one possible new fire
was reported Friday at the head
of the Applegate river in the
Rogue River National forest, ac
cording to S. T; Moore,' fire con
trol officer.
Eight fires reported Friday
were under control and prac
tically out by Saturday morn
ing, "We fully expect some sleep
ers," Moore said, and forest serv
ice fire suppression crews are
on standby this weekend.
The state department of for
estry reported no additional fir
es. " f
Lightning Fires in
State Controlled
Portland (U.R) -r John C.
Hunt, fire control officer for
the bureau of land management,
said here Saturday that scores
of lightning fires on federal
rangeland in central and eastern
Oregon have been controlled.
The largest of the fires cov
ered 100 acres in the Baker area
Hunt said.
Nearly 100 fires were ignited
in grasslands around burns Fri
day night but rain that follow
doused all but five of the fires.
Chicago U.R) Thunder
storms, hall and high winds
pounded the east Saturday
while most of the western two-
thirds of the nation had mostly
fair weekend weather.
existing county networks sheriff, city and
state police, and the Southern Oregon Conser
vation and Tree Farm association network.
The Federal Communications commission has
offered to finance installation and mainten
ance of a direct line to radio station KMED,
which will broadcast on the Conelrad fre
quency, 1240 kilocycles, during an emer
gency. Major General J. H. Hicks, county CD
director, stands in front of the building.
Project Authorized
By Bureau to Start
This Fiscal Year
Washington U.R Work
on the Talent project will begin
"as oromptly as possible" this
f iseal rear. SecretBry-of - InterkTrTto the" wreckage'about
Fred A. Seaton said Saturday.
The Talent project is one of 10
new starts authorized for the Bu
reau of Reclamation this year
and congress has appropriated
$2,400,000. It was the first ap
propriation for the project
which will have an overall cost
of an estimated $19,260,000.
Reduce Flood Damage
Lying principally in Jackson
county, the Talent project will
provide irrigation water for 18,
000 acres and develop 16,000
kilowatts of hydroelectric pow
er, as well as reduce flood dam
age. Scheduled ,to get the initial
appropriation are Howard
Prairie, Emigrant and Keene
Creek dams and reservoirs but
there will be no actual construc
tion. Work will be preliminary
although some contracts will
be awarded in connection with
Green Springs power plant and
for delivery and collection can
als.
Congress has stipulated that
no construction should be start
ed until payment contracts have
been completed.
Negotiations Under Way
Negotiations on the final
phases of the payment contract
are under way now, according
to irrigation district officials.
An election on the contract by
water users of TID is anticipat
ed in the near future for final
approval.
In addition to the Talent pro
ject, bids on several phases of
rehabilitation work in the
Rogue River Valley and Med
ford Irrigation districts will be
opened within two months.
Two Scouts Spend Night in
Woods at Camp McLoughlin
Camp McLoughlin, Lake of the
Woods Two second class Boy
Scouts, both 13 years of age,
were none the worse for wear
Friday after inadventently
spending Thursday night togeth
er in the woods.
The boys, Jeff Porter, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Norris Porter, Old
Stage rd., and Eddie McGinty,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward A.
McGinty, 103 King st., were on a
troop hike up Brown mountain,
near Scout camp, Thursday after
noon, when they became tired,
and decided to wait for the
others to go up the mountain,
and to meet them when they des
cended. During Wait
During the wait, however, they
thought they heard voices at the
base camp below, and decided to
go down themselves, but missed
the faint trail and became lost.
When the other Scouts return
ed to base camp, several went on
Ft. Dix Plunge Is
Sixth Worst in
Air Force History
Rescue Operations
Take Five Hours
Fort Dix, N. J. (U.R) A C118
military transport plane plum
meted into a swamp minutes af
ter it took off into a violent elec
trict storm Friday, killing 45 per
sons and injuring 21 aboard.
A rescue task force of 700 sol
diers and airmen, 60 ambulances,
Army bulldozers and a crane
worked five hours to rescue the
survivors from a wild area of
pine forest and swampland on
the Fort Dix Army reservation.
The four-engine plane, a mili
tary version of the civilian DC6,
crashed about 4 p.rri., EDT Fri
day, after it took off from Mc
Guire Air Force Base near Fort
Dix for Burtonwood, England.
Two Children Aboard
Atlantic division headquar
ters of the Military Air Trans
port service said the plane car
ried a crew of 10 and 56 pas
sengers including 41 airmen,
nine officers and six civilians.
The civilians included two men,
two women and two children.
The Air Force indicated that
some of the victims may not
live through the day.
The Friday the 13th crash was
the first for the MATS Atlantic
division since its organization
eight years ago. It was the sixth
worst military plane crash in
Air Force history.
Roy H. Williams, a New Jer
sey state game warden, was
driving along a dirt road when
he heard the crash. An exper
ienced woodsman, he made his
way over the difficult terrain
three
miles from the end of the south
west runway of the air base.
Cuts Swath
The white and silver plane
cut a broad swath about 300
yards long through pine forest
and heavy brush, scattering
wreckage in four main pieces
over a half-mile area. The plane
did not burn.
Rescue workers said first the
wuigs were ripped off, then the
tail section and the fuselage was
broken into two large parts.
Bill Pannelli, of the Browns
ville, N.J., emergency aid squad,
was one of the first to reach
one of the main sections of the
fuselage lying in four feet of
water.
"We had to use cutting tools
to get inside. We removed 12
persons immediately and took
them to first aid squads."
"It was two hours before we
had everyone out of the plane,"
Panneili said.
The soldiers and airmen aided
by volunteers from Central New
Jersey towns used axes to hack
their way through the pines and
undergrowth. They sloshed
through hip deep mud and water
to reach the victims.
Col. John D. Lavelle, McGuire
Air Force Base commander, said
a board of inquiry to investigate
the crash would be named.
Cause of the crash was not
announced pending examination
of the wreckage and interviews
with survivors.
Castel Gandolfo, Italy U.R)
Pope Pius XII Saturday took
up residence in his summer vil
la here, earlier than usual at the
advice of his physicians.
to the main camp to see if the
boys were there. When it was de
termined they were missing,
search parties of older boys and
camp staff members started look
ing for them. During the night,
21 boys and men, in two parties,
conducted the search, and appar
ently missed them only by a few
hundred yards.
Friday morning, after spend
ing the night huddled together
without fire or blankets, the two
boys made their own way out to .
the road to camp.
Cliff Hansen, Scout executive,
said the boys who searched dur
ing the night were "a lot tireder
Friday than the boys who were
lost."
Completing 1st Week .
The Scout camp here is com
pleting the first week of its first
period, Hansen reported, with
126 boys, 4 scoutmasters and 23
staff members in attendance. The
camp is located on the west side
of Lake of tbe Woods.