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Pearl Emergency Press Headquarters. Operation Alc-rt 'J ? A six-day nationwide civil defen.-e "Opera tion Ai'-rt 1&56" was kicked off a. 11 am. (EDT) tlay with a mock sm-ak a'.omic attack on Pearl Harbor and Puerto Rico. Some 10.00') federal officials ami workers fifd Wa.hinglon to ."7 .sfret f i::er;:'Tiey centers 50 to .';jfj u-i i 1 f .-, from the capital. T' t) M.a'r governments ai.-o mov ed krv p'i-"Oiii'l 'ii piacc- of thr'r.rr-'iral safety from hydrogen anei a'omic bombs. Training Exercise Includes County, City Organizations Portland ngi the target nf a mnck nuciar attack this morn ing as pail of the national two riav rr. tt rir 'fi-'iv-r Operation A!rt lf"fi training exercise. A !"'al "f ":!.'"( simulated cvvifs and 1.500 "casualties" from 'he Portland area were due in Jackson county for hous ing, food and medical care in the cm r'T-f in which fcrieral. slat", county and city civil de fense yrnups participated. Events Leading to Notice Events leading up to notice that "33,(100 evacuees" would be arming here started at 7:06 a.m. toctay, when Maj. Gen. Jo seph H. Hicks, county CD direc tor, received "a warning" that Portland would be ' bombed in abou two hours, 30 minutes." Other events: 7:22 am. Message received that Gov. Elmo Smith issued a proclamation declaring a state of emergency. The Oregon Na tional Guard was ordered mobi lised and 'sales of petroleum product", medical supplies and food ordered fro7.cn." 8 55 a in. Message received of red warning "Applejack." sig nifying that an "attack" was due in 30 minutes. 9:30 a.m. Received message that "bomb" had been dropped on Portland. The Medford weather bureau computed theo retical possible fallout, and said wind conditions would cause fallout to travel north. If a "bomb" were dropped in the San Francisco area "fallout" would end southeast of Mt. Shasta, the weather bureau said. ' 'Evacuee' Due ! 10:30 a.m. Message received i that "33. 000 evacuees" are due in .lackson county for housing.' food and medical care. ' Noon Message received that j "1.50(1 casualties' due in Jack son county. They were sched uled to be sent to the Medford and Camp White areas. Meanwhile, the new civil de fense control center in the Na tional Guard area in Camp White was opened and radio communication was established with the Salem office. Hicks said. Local radio stations were set up in Shady Cove. Rogue River and Central Point. The stations. Hick said, send out information to communities as it is received from the county center. Civil defense directors in the communities notified dealers -not to sell petroleum products, medical supplies and food," and residents were urged to conserve the products because they will not be available until after the emergency. Training Exercise Tomorrow, a civil defense training exercise will be con ducted starting at 9 a.m. at Cra ter High school in Central Point. More than 100 selected civil defense and Red Cross person nel will register volunteers who are acting as evacuees in con nection with the alert. During the morning, south bound traffic on Highway 99 will be handed cards by county sheriff's deputies. Civil defense and car occupants will be asked to register at the school as evacuees. Hicks urged the general pub lic to participate in the exercise, and local service clubs and civic organizations havf indicated they nlan to participate in the exercise. Badio Broadcast In connection with the exer cise, a 15 minute radio broadcast over Conclrad radio stations KMED and KY.1C. Medford. was given starting at 12:10 this noon. All stations went off the air for the 15-minute period, with only Conelrad stations broadcasting. The first alert activating city crews participating in the train ing exercise, was received at the city hall about 7:10 a.m.. accord ing to Robert Duff, city mana ger. Duff said following the alerts there were simulated "move outs" by the fire department and an accumulation of emergency crews at the department of pub lic works and water depart- Salem U.P.' First petition in the recall movement against Har.c Cotirt'y District Attorney Eueer.e Venn has been filed here. Harbor, Feports of the surprise attack were relayed through this emer gency press headquarters more than 100 miles from Washington. Though President Eisenhower re mained in the capital, his orders were made public. At 11.05 a.m. ' E DT i the press headquarters issued this bulletin: "A simulated surprise attack was launched agains' the United States at 11 a.m. EDT) today with the simultaneous mock bombing of Hawaii and Puerto Rico. 6 'Help! Portland Blasted by Simulated H-Bomb Salem (U.Pi Portland was blasted by a simulated H-bomb of 100 kilotons at 9:45 a.m. today as part of the national "Opera tion Alert 195fi." ! Gov. Elmo Smith imnwdiau I." issued an emergency proclama tion which would have frozen the retail and wholsesale sale of I all f'Hid. medical and petroleum supplies in the state. He said the supplies would be distributed by I civil defense to emergency aid areas and reception centers for the welfare of Portland "evacuees." Yellow Warning Flashes First warning of the mock at tack can.e at 7:03 a.m.. (PST) and a yellow warning was flash ing to six key points throughout the state. At 7:06 a.m. the simulated evacuation of all Portland resi dents was ordered. Traffic con trol points were manned through out the state and state police, sheriff's deputies and auxiliary police began halting traffic go ing towards Portland to advise them of the alert. National Guard units moved to staging areas. Civil defense, welfare and medical teams were dispatched to emergency aid areas at Scap poose. Banks. Forest Grove, Grove, Newberg, C a rl t o n, Salem, Canby. Molalla, Estacada, Sandy and Hood River. Warning red was received by Rural School Board Group Sets Meeting The Jackson County Rural School Board association will hold its quarterly meeting at Lone Pine school at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. July 24, it was an nounced today. Officers for the coming year will be elected, according to John Niedermever. Jacksonville. I president of the association. ' The association includes mem j hers of all rural school boards in the county, and Niedermever ursed newly-elected school board i members to attend. Figures Prove Use Of Medford Water Medford used a total of 17 million gallons of water Wednesday, while Portland used 181 million gallons yes terday, or 10.64 time as much. Medford's population is about 20,000. while Portland's is in the neighborhood of 435. 000. or somewhere around 21. 75 times as many. The figures indicate that Portlanders used about 418 gallons per day per capita in its 10S degree heat, while in Medford, which has long been known as a town which has a high per capita use of water, residents used about 850 gal lons each during a 104 degree day. or more than twice as much i Portland ruidenj. Puerto Kico I "This is the initial phase of : j a nationwide civil defense train- j ing exercise." ; Three hours after the first .imaginary attack. President Eis- i enhower issued a test version of i an executive order proclaiming j an ''unlimited national emergen-! i cy and state of war." : Tiie announcement said if the j : simulated attacks had been real, the President would have de-1 S dared the nation at war and in , a stale of unlimited emergency. I i Prior to 1he presidential proc-1 Man-Eating Tiger!' the state civil defense control center here at 8:50 a.m. Smith Inspects Center Firs! unofficial counts indicat ed that only 12.000 to 15.000 persons would have been trap ped in Portland when the bomb ers struck due to the long warn ing period. Gov. Smith left, the state Capi tol as a precautionary measure to inspect the Canby welfare cen ter where Portland "exacuees" were gathered. After a brief inspection he left for an undisclosed point and meetings with state officials. Two Are Sentenced In Circuit Court Two men charged with con tributing to the delinquency of a minor were given state peni tentiary sentences in circuit court this morning. Byron Everett Craven. 24. of box 45. Trail, was sentenced to one year, and Robert Paul Bry ant. 22. of 832 North Central ave., was sentended to 21 i years. Both men were arrested July 5. In other circuit court action today. George Voleney Miller, 19. of route 2, box 13, Jackson ville, had his case continued pending receipt of a federal bureau of investigation report. Miller is charged with burglary, larceny from an auto, armed robbery and being AW7OL from the armed services. Another case continued for FBI records was a disorderly conduct charge against Donald 1 Elwood Little, 39. of route 2. box 702, Central Point. The case of Bergen Hardy I Scott, 34. transient, charged with I larceny from an auto, was con I tinued for appointment of an i other attorney. Zander Appointed Jackson County Jailer Edward J. Zander.. 1146 West Eighth si., has been hired by the county sheriff as county jailer. Zander resigned July 1 from the Medford city police as a patrolman. According to Police Chief Charles Cahmplin. he re signed then because he was "dis satisfied" with the department. Another ex-city policeman. Robert Gheysen. 710 Pennsyl vania ave., has been transferred from the jailer's position to the sheriff's patrol. Gheysen resign ed from the city police force May 4. i Air Conditioning Units Donated to Hospital The Providence Guild and other interested parties in the valley have donated 11 air-conditioning units to Sacred Heart hospital. The units, valued at S240 each, are being used in the private roojjis and wards at the Jio?pitaL lamation announcement, news men were told that the first imaginary nuclear air raids hit Seattle, Spokane. Milwaukee, and Rochester, N.Y. A bit later, five more con tinental targets were reported "hit" by enemy bombers, includ ing the atomic energy installa tion at Hanford. Wash. Further announcements fol lowed from time to time as they came in through the civil defense communications network. The first imaginary attacks came without warning from off M EDFC United Pre-iS Full Leased Wire 51st Year 22 Pages McKeon's Defense To Give Evidence Of Severe Marches Parris Island, S.C IU.R) Pvt. Thorn at Grabowski, Kearney, N. J.. testified today that he "smelled a little liquor" on the breath of Marine Sgt. Matthew C. Mc Keon not long before the drill instructor marched his men into a tidal creek where six drowned. Parris Island. S.C. IU.R) - Marine Sgt. Matthew C. Mc Keon's defense was permitted today to produce evidence at his man-slaughter court martial that sev eral night marches into j the swamps and tidal streams j at this depot had been a practice j of training Leatherneck recruits. ' To Admit Evidence Navy Capt. Irving N. Klein. presiding as judge at McKeon's j trial on charges that his action , led to the drowning of six re-1 emits in the salty waters of j Ribbon creek ruled that evi dence about that type of t'ain ing will be admitted regarding charges that McKeon oppressed troops under him and charges of involuntary manslaughter as a result of the oppression. An earlier witness on this fifth day of McKeon's trial testi-fi-d that the sergeant was an "outstanding drill instructor" who was working with a "medi ocre'' platoon at the time of the April 8 tragedy. Victory for Defense Klein's ruling was considered a victory for the defense which has argued throughout the court martial that long night inarches were customary at Parris Island and part of the program it takes to turn a soft civilian into a Marine toughened for battle. Klein ruled that such evidence must be confined to practices "under the same and similar cir cumstances" as those that pre vailed when McKeon led 74 members of a recruit platoon into Ribbon creek to "teach them discipline." Six of the recruits drowned, and national attention has been focused on this resultant court martial as it has on no other since the famed trial of Billy Mitchell. Camp White Man Fined In District Court Horace Phinney Isaacs. 61. Camp White, was fined S250 and court costs and had his driver's license suspended for 90 days in district court yesterday. Isaacs was arrested July 8 by state police for driving while under the influence of intoxi cating liquor. He was given a suspended jail sentence of 30 days for good behavior and upon payment of the fine. The Dalles Records 108; Portland Bakes With 106 By UNITED PRESS The Dalles. Ore., and Yuma. ; Ariz . yesterday were the two : hottest spots in the United States ! with 108 degrees each. Portland I was not. far behind with 106 de grees as the state's fiercest heat wave in years hit its climax. Forestry officials, at 5 p.m. yesterday, clamped a closure or der on the Tillamook burn area, forbidding persons to enter the area without permit until rains ease the serious fire hazard. The state has gone 14 days without measurable rainfall and blazing shore submarines firing guided missiles nuclear warheads. Hon olulu was hit by two missiles, one burst in the air over Pearl Harbor and the other in the air over Hickam Air Force Base. The hazards of fallout were minimized, press headquarters said, because both bombs burst in the air. But another imaginary missile hit the College of the Sacred Heart in San Juan, P.R., and burst on the ground, raising the hazard of fallout. Each missile had explosive Disclose 1' V Washington - U.R The U.S. decision to withdraw its offer of aid for Egypt's Aswan dam was a calculated risk designed to deflate Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and put Russia on the spot, informed sources said today. The surprise action, announced Thursday night, deprives Nasser of continuing his game of play ing the United States against the Soviet Union in an attempt to get the best deal possible for the Log Hauling Gets One Hour Extension The state highway commission has authorized an extension of one hoor for log hauling in the state on week days, but denied a request for hauling all day Saturdays. The commission authorized effective immediately log haul iiiK between 4 a.m. and 9 p.m. daily. Previously, log hauling was prohibited after 8 p.m. Hauling is allowed only Satur day mornings. The Oregon Log and Lumber Truckers league of Medford, the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association of Medford, the Oregon timber Transport Operators and the Associated Forest Industries re quested the changes. According to H. B. Glaisycr, secretary of the commission, the commission "could not see its way clear to grant the request for hauling on Saturday after noons." Hauling has been prohibited at night and Saturday afternoons during the tourist season be cause the commission said it en dangers the lives of tourists. 12 Buildings Damaged In Fire at Astoria Astoria (U.R) A fire that spread to 12 buildings was brought under control last night after blazing for over three hours. The flames started originally in a group of three old buildings at the west end of Astoria. Two of the buildings, including a con demned hotel, were destroyed and the third was nearly gutted. From these buildings, a high wind carried burning composi tion shingles to the roofs of other buildings, setting nine other residences and buildings on fire. Numerous brush and grass fires also were started by the wind-carried embers. Fire companies from Seaside, Hammond. Warrenton, Knappa, the U. S. Coast Guard station at Point Adams and the Tongue Point Naval Station at Astoria fought the flames. skies have turned the forestE into a tinderbox. The 106 degrees clocked at the customs house in downtown Port land yesterday was only one de gree short of the city's all-time heat record. In 1942 the tem perature hit 107 and 13 persons died. So far, the city has not attributed any deaths directly to the heat. A slow cooling trend was ex pected to make Portland and the Willamette valley about 15 de grees cooler today as marine air pushed into the super-heated air hanging over interior valleys. US Withd To Build Egypt force equivalent to 100,000 tons of TNT. As air raid sirens shrieked in downtown Washington at 11:12 a.m. (EDT) President Eisenhow er met with representatives of the government departments and agencies at an expanded Se curity council session in the White House cabinet room. Assistant White House Press Secretary Murray Snyder said Mr. Eisenhower and the officials reviewed "the program of ac tions which would be invoked" if this were "a real attack cri- rKlDAY, JULY 20, 1956 raws Offer dam. Now, officials said, the Egyptian strongman must go to Russia and ask for help instead of bargaining for it as he could while the American offer stood. Russia may find herself on the spot because there is a ques tion whether she can afford to pour the resources into the SI. 300. 000, 000 water resources project needed to see it through to completion. The United States announce ment that it was withdrawing its scven-month-old offer to help built the Nile river dam came after a 70-minutc meeting be tween Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Egyptian Am bassador Ahmed Hussein. Hussein, who had arrived from Cairo Monday with instruc tions to accept the Western of fer, refused to discuss his meet ing with the reporters. He ap peared to some to be stunned. The United States said devel opments since the original offer last December "have not been favorable to the success of the project." Therefore, it said, "the United States government has conclud ed that it is not feasible in pres ent circumstances to participate in the project." Cairo, Egypt '.U.R; Egyptian government circles said today the withdrawal by the United States of its offer to help fi nance the Aswan high dam proj ect may boomerang against Washington. The sources said their action is likely to push Egypt closer to Russia than farther away. Bids Called for Lone Pine Addition Bids for construction of an addition to Lone Pine school will be received by the school board until 8 p.m., July 31, ac cording to Estelle Ballard, clerk. Plans call for a six-classroom addition with boiler room, teach ers' room, two toilet rooms and covered passages. The addition will have pumice block exterior walls, concrete slab floors, wood decking with insulation and built-up roof, and aluminum sash. Floors wdll be covered with asbestos tiie, and walls will be painted on the block, plastered and finished with plywood in various areas. The new section will have radiant heat in the floor, and a new oil-fired hot water boiler will be required. Plans and specifications may be obtained from Architect Jack A. Edson, 34 North Central ave., Medford. Washington (U.R) Senate investigators voted on party lines to hold public hearings on the law practice of Murray H. Chotiner. Vice President Rich ard M. Nixon's 1952 campaign manager. Weather FORECAST: Continued tair and dry through Saturday. Slight ly cooler. Low tonight fit. High Saturday S5. Temp. H(tht Yesterday 31 Lowest this Morning .. 1 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise - a.m. Sunnet - 'i!3 p.m. The Moon rises :n p.m. sets Saturdav 3:S5 a.m. and will be full SunrTay MARS rises 10:41 p.m. This ruddv planet is now less than 4S.fJOO,uori miles from the. Earth and It has become brighter than Jupiter. Dam Snyder said the President will meet with representatives of these agencies again next Wed nesday "to receive assessments of the effectiveness of the exer cise." The alert ends at 6 p.m. (EDT) Wednesday, but officials who fled the capital will return Monday. Tacoma and Spokane: Madi son, Wis., and Anchorage. Alas ka, were warned of probable at tack at the instant of the sur prise island attacks. Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 103 Witnesses Start Testimony; Second Alternate Selected Slate Police Sgt. Thomas Eaton this morning described to the jury the sequence of inci dents as he remembered them from the time the body of Alvin William Eacret, 14, Klamath Falls, was reported discovered April 29 at Tub Springs state park, to the arrest of Billy Jun ior Nunn, 28, Klamath Falls, May 2 at Alturas, Calif. Nunn is on trial for his life charged with first degree mur der of the Eacret boy. The trial got underway about b:at) a.m. today, after the second alternate juror. Melvin Dyer, was se-1 leclcd. First Alternate First alternate juror, Joe E. Crawford, was selected jester day afternoon. He was appoint ed to the regular jury this morrr ing after Judge H. K. Hanna granted the request of Mrs. Bet ty Lacy to be dismissed for physical reasons. In his opening statement. Dis trict Attorney Walter Nun ley saiu lie lnienciea to prove Kunn was guilty of committing vic ious, deliberate, premeditated homicide. He said he expected evidence to show Nunn had picked up the murder victim in his car at Klamath Falls, had stopped at a grocery store where a friend saw Alvin and the car in which he was riding, had stopped at the Mountain View cafe and service station where the attendant re membered Nunn and that Nunn's car had a defective re verse gear, and that Nunn and the Eacret boy had stopped to inspect a wrecked car near Soda Springs. Further Evidence He further stated Ms evidence would show that Wilbur Ham mond, whose daughter is mar- (Continued on Page 12) Bulletins New York (UP) The body of a baby boy was found in the North river today. Police said the de scription of the boy match ed that of Peter Wein berger, who was kidnaped July 4. A drowning death and a logging fatality were be ing investigated by the coroner's office early this afternoon. Sheriff's depu ties were assisting with the investigation of the re ported drowning of a 14-year-old boy at a dam off the Old Stage rd. in the Scenic ave. area. State police were working on the industrial death case. Names of the victims were not immediately available. Theodore Jasper Daily, 19, of 544 Effie St., city jail pris oner being held on a vagrancy charge, broke away from an officer and escaped this morn ing when he was being led back to the jail from the court room, police reported. Daily was arrested Wednes day with other youths in con nection with an auto theft case. Officers said he broke away about 3:45 a.m. today and had not been apprehended by early this aitaraooru Within five minutes after the first surprise attacks, "other alerts were spread across the northern edge of the nation. Honolulu and San Juan sound ed "all clear" signals at 11:15 a.m. (EDT) and 11:08 (EDT). But mock yellow alerts con tinued to spread across the coun try. In all there were some 75 hy pothetical target areas in 34 states. Some of them planned evacuation, feeding, and treat ment of citizens. (See Story on Page 3) Elimination of Trade Embargoes Asked in Report Pula, Yugoslavia UP! The "uncommitted" chiefs of state of Yugoslavia, India and Egypt call ed today for elimination of all trade embargoes, freedom for Algeria and admission of Com munist China to the United Na tions. They also urged settlement of the German problem by peace ful negotiation as a means of easing world tension. A joint communique, released simultaneously in Cairo, New Delhi and Belgrade, outlined the conclusions reached in 10 hours of talks between Yugoslav Presi dent Tito. Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. The "Little Three" conference at Tito's summer residence on the island of Brioni ended late Thursday. Nehru accompanied Nasser on his return trip to Cairo for further talks in the Egyptian capitol. The Egyptian president held private talks with Tito be fore Nehru's arrival in Yugo slavia. The joint, declaration opened with a series of general state ments along the expected linos advocating "peaceful and active coexistence." But celling down to specific problems, tor 13-paragraph state ment said ihe leaders of the three nations "tmpha&iix the great importance of removing embargoes and obstacles to the normal development and broad ening of international trade." Significant Point Observers said this point may have special significance to Israel. In addition to the Western strategic embargoes against East ern Europe and Communist China, it was also believed to refer to the current "Arab block ade" of Israel because Egypt herself has led the Arab block ade. The joint statement then took up some of the specific interna tional trouble spots, declaring that "The three principal areas of tension and possible conflict are Central Europe, the Far East and Asia and the Middle East area between Europe and Asia." Calling for United Nations membership for Red China, the little three declared that "The problems of the Far East can not be solved in a satisfactpry manner without the full coop eration of the Peoples Republic of China." "They said other countries, loo, should be admitted to the United Nations if they apply and if they meet conditions of the U.N. charter. This was believed to refer specifically to .Japan, but could also refer to Russian sponsored Outer Mongolia, which failed to gain admittance under the U.N. "package deal" last fall. Concerning German reunifica tion, they said "This important question should be resolved in accordance with the desires of the German people through an agreement reached by peaceful negotiations." West German circles, which hoped Nehru would offer his services as a mediator, were reported disap pointed by his middle-of-the-road altitude. The West has ad vocated free elections by the German people on the question of reunification, while the So viet bloc insists on direct nego tiations between East and West Germany. Nehru, Nasser and Tito called for a cease-fire and complete in dependence for Algeria, consid ered by the French as part of metropolitan France. Central Point Youth Wins Designer Contest John Foley, 15, route 1, Cen tral Point, has been named a first place winner in his age divi sion for Oregon in the 1956 Fisher Body Craftsman's Guild model car competition. Foley, with the other Oregon winner, Jim P. Schneider, Port land, will be given $150 cash prize. The contest is sponsored yearly by the guild, with $115, 000 in cash and university schol arships given to the nations beet teea-age mnrifil car designers.
