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HELP YOURSELF Guests at the Republi
can Jamboree, still clad in smorgasbord serv
ing attire, examined with interest booster
stickers, lapel pins and campaign cards for
their "favorite candidates." Left to right are
Congressman Harris Ellsworth, Douglas Mc
Kay, candidate for senator, Interior Secretary
Fred A. Seaton, Barbara Gordon and Jane
Bash. More than 500 people attended the
event at Hawthorne park.
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Seaton Says
Better Than
It'i better to "reach the brink"
of war than to engage in actual
warfare, Fred A. Seaton, secre
tary of the interior, told more
than 500 last night at the Repub
lican Jamboree in Hawthorne
park.
Seaton cited the end of the
Korean conflict and absence of
further combat among major
achievements of the Eisenhower
administration. He said he does
not feel the Democrats were
solely to blame for World" War I,
World War II or the Korean con
flict, but added, "The Democrats
were in power when the shoot
ing started."
'Brink of War
The Hastings, Neb., newspaper
publisher made reference to
statements by Defense Secretary
'Brink of War'
Open Warfare
John Foster Dulles that the 'audience the Korean conflict
United States reached the "brink
of war" three times during the
Eisenhower administration.
Recalling the 1952 presidential
campaign, the speaker said Eisen
hower and Nixon preached a
crusade across the country and
drew up a "series of indictments'
against the political party then
in power. Seaton listed the fol
lowing charges:
Series cf 'Indictments'
"(1) America was weary, frus
trated and worried about the
Korean war; (2) There was scan.
die among government leaders
in Washington; (3) The value of
the dollar had declined; and (4)
There was encroachment on the
rights of the people."
The speaker reminded the
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Seaton Declines Bid
To Visit Mining Site
If there is any further govern
mental action on the Al Sarena
mining case, it will come from
the departrrent of justice, Inte
' rior Secretary Fred Seaton said
last night
His remark came in response
to a question about an invitation
tent him by Charles O. Porter,
Xugene attorney and candidate
for congress from this district,
to drive him to the site of the
controversial mining patents on
the Rogue River National forest
near Trail.
Write to Seaton
It was Porter, in his campaign
for congress two years ago who
first brought public attention to
the mining claim case which
sine has become a national is
sue. Early this week he wrote
Seaton suggesting that he view
the claims personally, and offer
ing to provide transportation
during Seaton's visit to Medford
yesterday.
Seaton. who said the letter
caught up with him Wednesday
evening, declined because of a
tight schedule which called for
appearances in Eugene, Rose
burg and Medford yesterday,
and a flight to the mid-west for
speaking engagements early today.-
Unanimous in Request
But he said he reminded Por
ter that the congressional com
mittee which held bearings on
Al Sarena was unanimous in
asking that the matter be re
ferred to the justice department.
The Democratic majority of the
committee made the recommen
dation that the justice depart
ment check for possible fraud,
and the Republican minority
agreed with the stipulation that
the department also check for
irregularities during previous
administration when the disput
ed claims were not admitted to
parent." ' '
Seaton said he called Wash
ington after receiving Porter's
letter to check on the status of
the Democratic majority re
quest, and learned that it had
not yet been forwarded to the
justice department. He said he
suggested to Porter that Sena
tors Wayne L. Morse and Rich
ard L. Neuberger might well in
terest themselves in seeing that
this is done.
Much-Disputed Issue
The Al Sarena affair has be
come a much-disputed campaign
issue, both in the 1954 campaign
and again this year. It involves
mining claims filed by the Mc
Donald brothers which were
never admitted to patent during
Democratic administrations, but
which were patented during the
incumbency of Doug McKay,
now Republican candidate for
senator opposing Senator Morse,
as interior secretary, on the mo
tion of his then-solicitor, Clar
ence Davis, after assays showed
sufficient mineralization of fhe
claims to allow patents.
The assays have been the sub
ject of dispute, particularly by
Porter, who claims that another
series of assays should be made
and that all parties bind them
selves to accept them.
Democrats have claimed the
patenting of the claims is an ex
ample of a Republican give
away" of natural resources; Re
publicans have claimed that the
requirements of the old mining
laws, then in effect, were fol
lowed, and that as a matter of
law the claimants were legally
entitled to their patent
ended during the present admin
istration and added, "Military
strength in the United States is
now 3'i times more than before
Manville Heisel. master of
ceremonies at the Republican
Jamboree last night, closed the
program with an announce
ment that whoever mistakenly
picked up a "little blue bag"
belonging to the guest speaker.
Interior Secretary Fred A.
Seaton, could exchange it at
the Medford hotel for a similar
blue bag mistakenly picked up
by the speaker's hosts.
The emcee explained. "The
missing bag contains Mr. Sea
ton's nightgown, which seems
to have drifted a little too far
away." The switch in bags oc
curred at the airport, he said.
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Korea." He told the crowd after
the president clarified his stand
on the United States policy in
the Far East there was no more
Formosa trouble, "except for a
few deplorable incidents in the
Formosa straits."
Regarding scandals in Wash
ington, Seaton said, "I think
we've stopped them. All we ever
promised was that when we
found crooks we'd prosecute and
not pamper them. I think we've
done that, and unfortunately we
had to prosecute a few of the
boys left over."
Seaton said, "Though the value
of the dollar declined and living
costs sky-rocketed while the op
position was in power, the Re
publican administration has bal
anced the budget twice and made
payments on the federal debt."
He added, "Agriculture prices
have gone up 15 per cent since
the first of the year and are still
on their way, while surplus
which is responsible, for low
prices is on the way down."
More Power
Regarding alleged Democratic
encroachments on rights of the
people, Seaton said they had ob
structed projects for public bene
fit, including provisions for ade
quate power facilities. He then
stated, "With Douglas McKay in
the interior department, 10,000,
000 kilowatts have been added
to the output of the Bonneville
Power administration. This is the
greatest increase on record."
Seaton said, "In 3V4 years the
Eisenhower administration has
brought more than $3 billion for
water and power facilities in the
country," and added, "In the Pa
cific Northwest you need a min
imum of 4.000,000 kilowatts each
year for the next 10 years. You
can search the record in Congress
until you're blind, but yos'll
never see a congressional appor
tionment for that much electric
energy. You just can't get that
much money from Uncle Sam.
You have to get money from
municipalities or wherever you
can and combine it with federal
aid."
Seaton, who was appointed sec
retary of the interior when Mc
Kay resigned recently to run for
senator, had much praise for his
predecessor. He said, "McKay
hasn't always voted the way the
administration wanted him to,
but has done so lots more than
his opponent, Sen. Wayne
Morse." He added that in the
rules committee, Congressman
Harris Ellsworth had a 100 per
cent record of support for the
White House.
Seaton was introduced by Mc
Kay, who made no formal
speech. On the speaker's plat
form, McKay also extended con
gratulations to Mr. and Mrs. H.
G. Wilson of Medford, who were
in attendance and were celebrat
ing their 64th wedding anniversary.
Others Introduced
Master of ceremonies was Man
ville Heisel, Medford attorney.
Republican candidates in
troduced includede Mrs. Anna
Scott, for county treasurer; L. G.
(Shv Morthland. county com
missioner siting reelecuon; Al-
Four San Quentin Prison Honor
Farm Escapees Steal Plane, Fly
Here
Escapees Though!
Headed North
In Stolen Auto
CAA Control Tower
Operator Takes Call
Four escapees from a San
Quentin prison honor farm be
low Happy Camp, Calif., landed
in Medford in a stolen airplane
at about 2:10 a.m. today. They
are thought to have left soon
afterward in a stolen car and
headed north.
The car wag found abandoned
early today near Myrtle Creek.
A search was being conducted
for the men in that area this
morning.
Escapees Identified
Believed escaped were Ger
ald Baucum, 26, San Francisco,
a known airplane and car thief;
Edward Virgil, 26, Sacramento,
know car thief; Paul Marquez,
24, Los Angeles, and Charles
Morgan, 36, Los Angeles.
Baucum is the supposed leader
of the break, having been sen
tenced for airplane theft in 1949
after deserting from the Marine
Corps and flying a stolen plane
from San Diego to Las Vegas,
Virgil .was enteneed -for-rob
bery, Marquez for narcotics vio
lation, and Morgan for kidnap,
holdup and bad checks, accord
ing to United Press.
CAA Gels Call
Ira Gibson Parish, CAA con
trol tower operator at the Med
ford municipal airport called)
city police into the case at 2:18
a.m. today.
He said that at 2:03 a.m. he
was called by an aircraft re
questing to land on the Medford
field. He gave it clearance for
runway, and didn't hear from it
again. Seven minutes later, he
said, he saw a plane land on the
cleared runway with only its
landing lights on, its navigation
lights off.
Plane Abandoned
After another eight minutes
during which Parish was unable
to reach the landed plane by ra
dio, he called the police.
An officer arrived and went to
the end of the runway to investi
gate the plane. He found it, a
Cessna 186 single engine craft,
abandoned and in the middle of
the runway.
The officer, with Harold G
Lane, aviation safety agent, and
Grant Clarence Bourquin, chief
control tower operator, found
the plane registered to E. E.
Head, Happy Camp, Calif.
They could not get Happy
Camp by telephone. They then
called the state police and asked
them to contact Yreka, Calif.,
by radio. State police informed
the airport men and the city offi
cer that four convicts had just
escaped a work camp in the
Happy Camp area on the lower
Klamath river and that they
could have stolen the plane.
Information Verified
Teletyped messages from Cal
ifornia verified the fact that the
convicts had stolen a plane in
Happy Camp after escaping and
driving a stolen pickup to the
to the Happy Camp airport.
State police here reported at
5:10 a.m. that a car belonging
to Albert Puhl, route 2, Medford,
had been stolen. Puhl lives about
200 yards from the runway
where the convicts left the plane.
The car was found, abandoned,
near Myrtle Creek this morning.
Head, contacted later this
morning, said he would come to
Medford to pick up his plane.
The FBI has been called in on
the case by virtue of the fact
that recent Congressional action
has made taking a plane across
a state line a federal offense.
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INSPECT NEW COMICS Five of the young
er members of the Mail Tribune staff last
week welcomed (and eagiilji i inEpectedl-the---"
arrival of comic sections, which the Mail
Tribune is adding to its Sunday edition. Left
to right the boys are Larry Jones (getting a' .
quick advance peek at "Steve Canyon") and
' Warren Lovell, both of the circulation de
partment, Marvin Taylor, assistant in the ad
vertising and business offices, and Jim Shopp
and Dudley Peterson, of circulation. The new
"comics, selected for the broadest possible ap
peal for the entire family, also'carry on the
continuity of most of the daily strips, and
include Steve Canyon, Blondie, Dennis the
' Menace; Peanuts, Mutt and Jeff, Li'l Abner,
Prince Valiant, Buz Sawyer, Snuffy Smith,
and They'll Do It Every Time. t
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PAUL SELBY
Filet for Mayor
Subscription Rates
To Increase Saturday
Effective tomorrow. Sept. 1
subscription rates for The Med
ford Mail Tribune will be in
creased, it was announced today
by Dale E. Enckson, circulation
manager.
The increase was made neces
sary by increased operating ex
penses and to permit carriers
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chants to earn slightly increased
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Subscription rales for home
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the year. Mail subscription rates
outside of carrier delivery areas
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for three months, $8 for six
months and $15 for a year. Single
copy sales by vendors and news
Selby Seeks Mayor Berth
len Curry, for assessor; Walter
D. Nunley, district attorney seek
ing reelection, and State Repre
sentatives E. H. Mann and E. A.
Littrell, both seeking reelection.
Carl H. Francis, candidate for
attorney general; Sig Unander,
state treasurer seeking reelec
tion; and Harris Ellsworth, seek
ing reelection as congressman
from the fourth district, were
also introduced.
(Sm Story ea fag 12)
Petitions nominating Paul J.
Selby, 44, for mayor of Med
ford, were filed today.
Only other candidate is John
Snider, now councilman from
Ward I. Deadline for city candi
dates to file for election is to
Selby was a member of the
city council from January, 1947.
to December, J954. In the 1954
campaign he 'was one of three
candidates for mayor. Mayor
Earl Miller was the winner in
that election. He is not seeking
reelection this year.
During his council service,
Selby served three years as presi
dent of the council, the post now
held by Snider. He also was a
member of most of the council
committees at one time or another.
Selby is the proprietor of the
Selby Glass Co., 303 North Bart-
lett st., and has been in business
here since 1942. He came to
Medford in 1935. He is an Elk,
Mason, Shriner, Kiwanian (presi
dent of the club in 1948), and
belongs to the Rogue Valley
Country club and Jackson Coun
ty Chamber of Commerce, hav
ing . served on several chamber
committees. He was a charter
member and first president of
the Medford Junior Chamber of
Commerce.
Selby and his wife and three
daughters live at 2427 Lyman
ave.
for the city council included
these candidates:
Ward I Ed Hall, Robert Mc
Intyre and Granvil Brittsan;
Ward II A. R. (Tony) Manno
and Al Bradford; Ward III Mrs.
Marina Gates and R. L. Van
Sickle (Councilman Harold Frye
is not seeking election); and
Ward IV Jimmy Dunlevy and
Jack Fitzgerald (the latter is the
present councilman). :
This -is the first city election
in which only the mayor and
council positions are up for elec
tion. At the 1954 election, voters
approved the city manager form
of government, and removed the
offices of recorder and treasur
er from elective status. I
stands will be 10 cents per copy
for daily or Sunday copies.
During the annual Bargain
Days, Sept. 8 to 17, subscribers
may renew or order their sub
scription for the full year at the
old rates of $15 by carrier and
$12 by . mail.
Six Airplane Crash .
Survivors in Vancouver
Vancouver, B.C. (U.R) A
Canadian Pacific Airlines mercy
plane reached Vancouver early
today with six survivors from
Thursday's Alaska Peninsula
crash of a plane in which 15
persons were killed.
Golf Results
Sue DeVoe. Medford. de
feated Mrs. W. W. Davies.
Redding. Calif., 5 and 4 today
in women's quarter-finals of
the Southern Oregon Golf
tournament at Rogue Valley
Country club.
Mrs. Robert Ihlanfeldt. Seat
tle, beat Mrs. Marge Fillis,
Salt Lake City. 7 and 5.
Carole Jo Kabler. Sutherlin.
edged Mrs. Maxine Hammond,
Medford, 1 up.
The quarter-final match be
tween Elaine Porritt, Eugene,
and Mollie Murphy, Portland,
was tied at the end of the
regulation 18 holes.
In the completion of men's
first round play, Clayton
Lewis. Medford. downed John
Jensen, Medford, en the 19th
hole.
Most Detailed
Revelation of
Continuing Tests
Guided Missile With
Atomic Warhead Hinted
Moscow (U.R) The Soviet
government announced today a
new series of high airburst nu
clear tests using "a minimum
quantity of radioactive . sub
stances." The new explosives took place
Aug. 24 and 30, the announce
ment said, "to perfect atomic
weapons and the development of
new types of weapons for vari
ous kinds of troops."
The statement was broadcast
by Radio Moscow. It was the
most detailed revelation yet of
the Continuing Soviet , nuclear
tests.
Mention of "new types of
weapons" and their detonation
"at great heights" suggested Rus
sia may have fired a guided mis
sile with an atomic warhead,
observers said in London.
The statement continued:
"In the Soviet Union tests of
atomic weapons are being car
ried out, as a rule at great
heights, which permits a sharp
reduction of radioactive fallout.
"It is. for the purpose that a
minimum quantity of radio
active substances is used.
'The Soviet government, guid
ed by its peace policy, has re
peatedly proposed at the United
Nations the unconditional ban
ning of atomic and hydrogen
weapons."
Washington U.R) President
Eisenhower announced today
that the Russians set off another
large atomic explosion in South
west Siberia Thursday morning.
Mr. Eisenhower told a news
conference that the test was
larger than the one conducted
in the same area last Friday. The
American government said last
week's test had a yield of less
than a megaton, 1 million tons
TNT equivalent.
Two More Festival
Performances Slated
Ashland Two performances
remain in the 1956 season of
the Oregon Shakespearean fes
tival. Tonight's will be "Love's
Labour's Lost" and the closins
play will be "Romeo and Juliet."
The box office reports that
tickets are still available for
both performances.
This will be the first time that
the season has been extended
to 32 performances, closing Sept.
i ratner than Aug. 31.
The traditional closing night
ceremony will follow Saturday
night's play, with the entire cast
taking part. It will include the
reading of Prospero's speech
from "The Tempest" and sine-
ing of "Greensleeves."
National Marketing
Quota Fixed on Cotton 1
Washington (U.R) Secretary
of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson
today fixed a national marketing
quota of 11,014,493 bales and
set a national acreage allotment
of 17,391,304 acres for the 1957
cotton crop.
The acreage allotment was the
same as that for 1956. It was
the minimum that could be set
under the 1956 farm law.
Weather
FORECAST: fair tonUht. Fair
with increasing hign cloudi
ness Saturday. Low tonight
54. High Saturday 90-9?.
Temp.
Highest Yeiterdiy 92
Lowest this Morning 51
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
Sunset
. 5:3i a.m.
6:47 p.m.
lj a.m.
Moon rise Saturday
New Moon next Tuesday
l'KUniKNT STAR
Capella. rises 9:29 p.m.
tnd will be high overhead at
u n rise.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Mars, rises 8:99 p.m.
Saturn, sets 9:2t p.m.
yenus, near the Moon.
Government, Safety Officials Urge Careful
Driving, Walking on Labor Day Holiday
Governmental and safety offi
cials, today issued a plea to all
motorists for sensible driving
and walking during the Labor
Day holiday.
- State police in Medford said
there was only one injury in
Jackson county last Labor Day
week end. But, they emphasized
that drivers should still be on
the alert for the "deadly five"
violations most often noted in
rural fatal accidents.
'Deadly Five'
They are excessive speed,
traveling on the wrong side of
the road, left turn in ace of
Ac of. noon today, the races, oncoming trafiic, sa&ios wiU
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out sufficient clearance and fol
lowing too close.
In 1855, seven were killed and
185 injured in 502 traffic acci
dents in Oregon, according to
E. C. Sammons, president of the
Highway Lifesavers Committee
of Oregon Citizens, Inc. He add
ed that nearly 99 per cent of all
fatal accidents are due to some
violation of traffic violations.
Officers To Patrol
All available state police traf
fic personnel will be assigned
to patrol duties during the three
day week end.
Courts also have been asked
to give full consideration to the
"grave threat of life and prop
erty posed by persons who com
mil these violations."