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Oakridge, Ore. u.Pj A
private pilot at Oakridge last
night told Oregon state police
that he had found the motor of
his aircraft warmed up and
ready for takeoff at a landing
'rip in the Box Canyon road
area about 10 miles north of
here.
The report spurred a manhunt
for two California prison honor
camp escapees believed to be at
large in the rugged mountain
area between the headwaters of
the McKenzie and Willamette
rivers. They escaped a work
Negro Pupils Enler
Clinton High Under
Guarantee of Guard
Clinton, Tenn. (U.R! Negro
students appeared today to have
cracked the racial barrier at
Clinton High school but their
counterparts in other tense
Southern spots went back to
their own schools.
Armed National Guardsmen
guaranteed Clinton's Negroes
safe entry into Clinton's class
rooms where they studied peace
fully Tuesday following a week
end of pro-segregation demon
strations.
Nine of the 12 Negroes who
entered the previously all-white
Clinton school eight days ago
found conditions unpleasant, but
no physical action was taken
against them by white students,
A number of the white pupils
left the school after the Negroes
arrive;! and shouted they would
not return until segregation is
restored.
At Mansfield, Tex.. 18 miles
southeast of Fort Worth, Negroes
abandoned their fight to attend
classes at the high school there,
despite a U. S. Supreme Court
order supporting their stand.
NAACP Attorney L. Clifford
Davis announced late Tuesday
his organization was postponing
its effort to integrate the Mans
field school where mobs, threat
ening to lynch, gathered last Fri
day and Tuesday.
Texas Rangers escorted
Negroes who had planned to at
tend Mansfield classes to an all
Negro school in Fort Worth, act
ing under orders from Gov.
Allan Shivers to prevent vio
lence. A mob, numbering about 500
white townspeople, converged at
the all-white high school . in
Sturgis, Ky.. Tuesday and bar
red nine Negro students from
entering for first-day classes.
First Kentucky Incident
The Negroes left after seeing
the crowd at the school and three
of them enrolled late Tuesday at
Dunbar High school, a Negro
institution at Morganfield near
Sturgis.
It was the first incident in
Kentucky since the Supreme
Court ordered integration last
year. Schools at Louisville ad
mitted Negroes for the first time
Tuesday without any difficulties
Accidental Bullet
Blast Injures Boy
Andrew Ray Boyle, 11, son of
Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Boyle. 422
South Riverside ave.. suffered
a slight wound in the chest yes
terday when a .22 caliber bullet
was accidentally exploded, ac
cording to Medford police.
Police said the cartridge was
detonated when the boy struck
it with a rake while he was rak
ing the lawn at his home.
His physician said a piece of
the cartridge case struck him in
the chest and the bullet grazed
his left shoulder. Neither wound
was serious and the boy was sent
home, police said.
Sevvyn Lloyd Flies
To Paris Meeting
Paris (U.R) British For
eign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd
flew here today for a meeting cf
the NATO Council with a warn
ing that blocking of the Suez
Canal would affect the progress
of all nations in Europe and
Asia.
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IS1BLE PLANETS
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camp at Yreka la5t week in a
stolen plane.
State police searched the area
around the landing strip through
out the night without results.
The pilot, whom police did not
identify, said the plane's motor
was not running but that it had
been started.
Police said the two men be
lieved at large in Oregon may
be Gerald E. Baucum and Ed
ward Virgil. It was earlier
thought they were Baucum and
Charles Morgan.
A restaurant operator at Mc
Kenzie bridge, 50 miles east of
Eugene, told state police today
Coos Forest Fires
Burn 640 Acres; Two
Reported at Mt. Hood
By UNITED PHESS
Three forest fires totaling
about 640 acres were being bat
tled in the Coos county fire pro
tection district today and other
men and equipment were rushed
to the scene of two potentially
dangerous fires in the Mt. Hood
national forest
Assistant State Forester Lynn
Cronemiller said the worst blaze
in the Coos county area was in
Three members of the south
west district staff of the state
forestry department war in
Coos county acting as admin
istrative personnel in the
fighting of a forest fire north
east of Gardner.
The three, Doyle Stockton
and Victor VanHoy, Medford,
and Bert Cook, Wolf Creek,
are members of the forestry
department's state fire team
No. 2.
Stockton, assistant south
west district warden, is a fire
boss on the team. VanHoy, a
forest inspector, is a chief
scout, and Cook, a forest war
den, is a division boss.
200 acres of cut-over timber at
Cassaday creek along the Smith
river. 10 miles northeast of
Gardiner.
The two fires in the Mt. Hood
national forest were located in
Clackamas county about 18 miles
southeast of Estacada. One was
near Shining Lake, about five
acres in size, and the other in
the Fish creek drainage area of
the Clackamas river in timber.
Low humidity and gusty east
winds worried foresters.
Other major fires were a 400
acre blaze 12 miles south of Co
quille on the east fork of the
Coquille river and a 40-acre fire
at Bridge on the Myrtle Point
Roseburg highway. Foresters
said the fires were not believed
Stevenson Asks End
To Military Draft
Los Angeles (U.R) Adlai
E. Stevenson today called for
an end to the military draft "at
the earliest possible moment con
sistent with the national safety."
The Democratic presidential
nominee told the national con
vention of the American Legion
he believes this is "the national
will" and "I subscribe with all
my heart to this purpose."
In his prepared text, Stevenson
delivered a slashing attack on
.he Republicans for "playing pol
itics with peace and for blam
ing the Democrats for World
Wars I and II and the Korean
war.
Stevenson said the election
campaign should be waged over
"which party offers the most
responsible program for peace."
One problem which "we must
re-thing." he said, was "the
make-up of military forces of
the future."
Stevenson said many military
experts believe the armies of
the future will use mobile units
equipped with tactical atomic
weapons.
Directors to Consider
Applications at Meet
Central Point Applications
of two men for membership in
the Central Point Rural Fire
department will be among items
considered at a directors meet
ing at the Central Point rural
fire station at 7 p.m. today, ac
cording to Claude Hoover, one
of the directors.
Hoover stated that besides the
two new applicants, five new
men have joined the depart
ment, making the number of
new members approximately
equal to the number of resigna
tions during the past month.
Salem 'U.R) Gov. Elmo
Smith will attend a meeting of
the National Governors' confer
ence committee on highway
safety at Denver, Colo., Sept. 28.
Shifts
that she served lunch to two
men yesterday and that one of
them answered Baucum's de
scription. The other man, she
said, was ' foreign looking" and
officers theorized it might have
been Virgil.
The fugitives were believed to
have escaped police patrols in
the Mytrle Creek area over the
week end and fled to Eugene in
a stolen garbage truck.
The convicts are two of a
group of four who fled the Hap
py Camp forest camp near Yreka,
Calif., in a stolen plane last Sat
urday. to be as serious as the one
Cassaday creek.
Two fires which broke out
anew in the Eagle Crest and
Brush College areas near Salem
were reported under control
again today after burning some
600 acres. A number cf other
gass fires in Marion county were
out.
Forestry officials said a total
of nine fires caused by dry hu
mid weather, brisk winds and
stubble burning operation had
been reported to them. All but
the three major fires were under
control.
Council Leases
Space at Airport
To Private Firms
The Medford city council last
night passed a resolution leas
ing private hanger space at the
Medford airport to Rogue Flying
service and Max-Sig Communi
cations. The flying service requested
the lease to erect private plane
hanger rental units for a 10
year period. A portion of that
property was leased to Max-Sig.
Charge Listed
City Manager Robert Duff said
the annual charge to Rogue Fly
ing service would be S3 16.80. He
added that the Rogue Flying ser
vice has agreed to complete the
construction of the private hang
er buildings within a 24 month
period.
The expansion of their present
shop and hanger building would
be completed on this property
within the term of the lease, he
said. They also have agreed, ac
cording to Duff, to set back their
east building line 35 feet. The
rentals from the hanger build
ings and other operations would
supplement their gross revenue
of which the city receives 2 per
cent. Duff said.
On the recommendation of
City Manager Duff the council
approved a request from Max
Sig communications for a 60 by
71 foot area of block three. Duff
explained the lease will pro
vide access to their electronics
service facilities.
The annual land rental on this
property would be $50.25. Duff
said. Both Rogue Flying service
and Max-Sig communications
have agreed to permit access
across their properties to planes,
he added.
Building Inspector Tells
Total of Building Permits
Building permits issued in
August totaled $157,986 in con
struction values, compared with
$340,919 for August last year. O.
R. McNecl, Medford building in
spector, announced today.
Among permits for August
were 15 new homes, $131,000:
eight business establishments re
modeled. S9.562: and eight signs
erected, $6,075. Total permits is
sued in August were 46 with
S532.60 paid in fees.
Carpenter's Local Indicates
Interest in Stumbo Property
The Stumbo clan of Wolf
Creek may have a "buyer" for
their 16 by 100-foot stretch of
property crossing U.S. Highway
99 north of Glendale in Douglas
county.
George Potucek, business
agent for Carpenters Local 2067
of Medford. today said trustees
of the organization are "investi
gating" the property which the
Stumbos playfully listed "for
sale" last week. Officials of the
union would not reveal reasons
for their interest in the tract.
No Settlement
The three Stumbo brothers,
Robert, Allan and Harry, and a
cousin. Clair Stumbo, recently
discovered the state failed to
make settlement for the prop
erty before construction of the
highway began in 1947.
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SUEZ COUNTERPLAN DISCUSSED
Eisenhower Slates
Four Big Speeches
During September
Rally of GOP Heads
Scheduled at Farm
Washington (U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower disclosed today
that he will launch his reelection
campaign with at least four big
speeches this month, aimed pri
marily at wooing the vital farm
vote.
From the President himself at
his news conference and later
from Presidential Press Secre
tary James C. Hagerty, this early
campaign picture emerges:
Mr. Eisenhower will kick off
his second term campaign at a
rally for state Republican lead
ers on his Gettysburg, Pa., farm
Sept. 12.
Sept. 19, he will make a na
tionwide radio and television
speech from Washington, setting
forth GOP campaign aims,
i Sept. 21, he will visit the Na
tional Plowing contest at New
ton, Iowa. He will speak briefly,
concentrating his campaign ac
tivities there on listening to farm
problems as outlined by key Re
publicans and farmers from the
Middlewest.
Stevenson Also To Speak
His Democratic rival, Adlai E.
Stevenson, addresses farmers
there the following day. The
speeches emphasize the import
ance of the farm issue in this
election year. Mr. Eisenhower
and Stevenson also spoke at the
plowing contest in Kasson, Minn,
four years ago.
Less than a week after the
Newton appearance. Mr. Eisen
hower will make another major
nationwide TV and radio ap
pearance from some location out
side of Washington. His theme
again will be the agricultural
situation.
There was a possibility that a
fifth public appearance for the
chief executive might be added
to his September schedule.
The active September sched
ule apparently presaged a much
more active campaign by Mr.
Eisenhower than originally con
templated. It appeared likely the'
pace would pick up in October,
although the President still in
sists he will not indulge in barn
storming. The emphasis on the farm
theme apparently is designed to
counter Democratic attacks
against the administration's farm
policies and offset recent farm
belt discontent.
Mr. Eisenhower did not class
ify his Newton appearance for
what he called a major address.
Instead, he said, he plans to
spend the day visiting with
friends from the farming com1
munities of the Middle West at
the National Plowing contest .
He said he will make a major
farm speech to the nation a week
later, about Sept. 27 or 28.
Mr. Eisenhower also said he
might campaign in Illinois, home
state of his rival for the presi
dency. Salem U.R Attorney Gen
eral Robert Y. Thornton has
ruled that a credit union has the
power and authority to act as
assignee for the benefit of itself
and other credit rs. The opinion
was requested by A. A. Rogers,
superintendent of banks.
The state highway department
has offered them $100 plus 6 per
cent interest since 1946. But
the Stumbos rejected the offer
and listed the property for sale
with the Leslie I. Kellow Real
Estate company in Medford.
(Kellow is an uncle of the
Stumbos.)
No Word Received
James McGoodwin, of Van
Dyke and Dellenbech law firm
in Medford. attorney for the
Stumbos, said no word has been
received from the state since
their offer last week. The state
has also indicated condemnation
procedures may be started if
clear title to the property can
not be otherwise obtained.
McGoodwin said the Stumbos
have set no specific value on
the property.
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1956
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Mill I ifted
More Money Expected
For County This Year
Money available to Jackson
county during fiscal year 1956
57 will total an estimated S4,
314,277. according to County
Treasurer Carl Janouch.
He gave the following figures
as the basis of his estimate:
Unexpended funds at start of
fiscal year SI. 044,277.
Estimated receipts (largely
O&C funds) S3.225.000.
Estimated tax receipts previ
ously delinquent 545,000.
Total $4,314,277.
More This Year
The county budget for the cur
rent year calls for an expendi
ture of $2,645,269, Janouch
stated, which indicates that
some $1,669,000 will be on hand
at the end of the year. This is
Frank Nixon Dies
Tuesday of Illness
La Habra, Calif. U.R) Frank
Nixon,' father of Vice President
Richard M. Nixon, died quietly
Tuesday night from a painful
illness.
His sorrowing wife, Hannah,
who had been at his bedside con
stantly, was holding his hand
when the elder Nixon, 77, slip
ped into death from a coma.
The vice president, who also
was at his father's bedside along
with other members of the fam
ily, was taking the death "pretty
badly," a family doctor said.
The white-haired elder Nixon
was stricken Aug. 22 with a rup
tured abdominal artery. Later
complications developed from a
long-s t a n d i n g hemorrhaging
stomach ulcer and other ail
ments. His doctor was amazed at
the elder Nixon's ill-fated battle
to live.
It was not known if the vice
president would go ahead with
his scheduled major speech
Thursday before the American
Legion national convention in
Los Angeles.
Police Searching
Houses lor Kidnaper
Hamden, Co nn. UR) . Police
checked rooming houses in the
Hamden area today for possible
leads in the kidnaping of 6-week-old
Cynthia Ruotolo.
FBI agents asked customers
at -the store where the infant
was kidnaped to help with any
information they might have.
Police officials appeared in
creasingly pessimistic about
their chances of finding the
child of Mr. and Mrs. Stephen
Rutolo, 33-year-old Marine corps
veteran.
Fire Boats Rush to
Portland Blaze Today
Portland (U.R) A big fire
raged during the noon hour to
day on the west bank of the Wil
lamette river here near the Ross
Island bridge.
Several pieces of equipment,
plus fireboats, were rushed to
the scene.
$600,000 more than the amount
"carried-over" from last year to
this.
The actual carry-over may be
somewhat larger than" the $1,
669,000 indicated, Janouch ex
plained, because the county fre
quently does not spend the full
amount authorized in the budget.
No Levy Forseen
"T"This should' make it possible
for the county to go a second
year in 1957-58 without a gen
eral tax levy, as it is doing this
year. The largest single source
of funds the county has is O&C
receipts. This money is the coun
ty's share of timber sale reve
nues paid to the 18 western Ore
gon counties in which lie the
O&C lands (once, railroad grant
lands repossessed by the govern
ment and administered by the
bureau of land management).
The counties receive 75 per
cent of the revenues, but in re
cent years have allocated por
tions for the construction of ac
cess roads, and this year have
authorized additional funds for
reforestation purposes.
Special Briefings
Offered Stevenson
Washington 0J.R) Officials
said today that Adlai E. Steven
son will be told "anything he
wants" to know about secret
phases of U.S. foreign policy at
special briefings ordered for him
by President Eisenhower.
The President Tuesday formal
ly offered to make available to
Stevenson for the duration of
the presidential campaign "full
and complete" .intelligence re
ports on the nation's foreign af
fairs. Stevenson said earlier he
would accept such an offer if it
were extended.
Officials said the secret re
ports could be delivered to Ste
venson almost anywhere and as
often as he wants them during
his campaign.
"This is for the good of the
country," one official told a re
porter. "There's no politics in
this. He can have anything he
wants."
Former Presidents Roosevelt
and Truman did the same thing
for their rivals for the White
House in 1944, 1948 and 1952
campaigns.
Attendance at Pool
Higher This Year
Attendance at the swimming
pool in Hawthorne park through
August this year has been 36,190
persons, compared with 33,329
at this same time last year, ac
cording to Darell Huson. city
treasurer.
Among those attending the
pool in 1956, Huson said, there
has been 16.932 children, 16,997
students and 2.261 adults.
He added that 9.527 persons
made us of the pool in August.
An average of 425 swimmers a
day have taken advantage of
the pool during the hot season,
he said.
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Egyptian National
Guardsmen Alerted
For Surprise Attack
Plan Calls for Link
With United Nations '
Cairo '.U.R) The five-nation
Suez committee discussed in se
cret today Egyptian President
Gamal Abdel Nasser's counter
plan for an international advi
sory body linked with the Unit
ed Nations to help run the Suez
canal.
The committee, headed by
Australian Prime Minister Rob
ert Gordon Menzics, then sent
one of its members, Iranian For
eign Minister Ali Gholi Ardalan,
to an unscheduled private meet
ing with Nasser, possibly to ob
tain further details of his plan.
Ardalan's special meeting
with Nasser came immediately
after the breakup of the morn
ing session of the five-nation
committee, which was sent here
to present Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles' plan for in
ternational control of the Suez
canal. The plan was backed by
18 members of the recent 22
nation London conference on
the future of the vital "water
way. Egyptian Army Alerted
It coincided with orders to
Egypt's volunteer National Lib
eration army, headed by'Maj.
Kamal El Din Hussein, to go on
the alert to meet a surprise at
tack "at any moment."
Two hundred Egyptian na
tional guardsmen added to the
note of urgency by practicing
river fighting techniques along
the Nile, while Major Hussein
called on his National Libera
tion army units figuratively to
man the front lines and pre
pare for possible, attack.
The order went out as the
five - nation Suez committee
headed by Menzies prepared for
its third round of meetings with
President Gamal Abdel Nasser
later today.
Advisory Board
Egyptian government source
said Nasser suggested to the
committee Tuesday night that
an advisory board closely linked
with the United Nations be set
up to help run the Suez canal.
The sources said Nasser re
jected the Dulles plan for inter
national control of the canal and
then offered his counter-proposal
in an effort to break the
deadlock. They emphasized that
neither the Menzies nor the Nas
er proposals were final but sug
gested in hopes of reaching a
negotiated settlement.
Second Set of Twins
Born to Local Couple
Their second set of twins
within' two years was born
Sunday morning. Sept. 2. to
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brown.
419 Haven ft., at Sacred Heart
hospital. The twins, a boy and
girls, weighed 7 pounds 3
ounces and 6 pounds 13 ounces
respectively.
The other set of twins. Debra
Jean and Daniel Dean, will be
two years old Oct., 17. The
Browns have another child.
Ronald. 3.
Brown is employed as a wel
der at Haupert Tractor comp
any. Huckleberries
Stage in Rogue River Valley
Huckleberry pickers are get
ting out the berry buckets this
week, as berries near the ripe
stage in main Rogue river area
patches.
Forest service officials said
yesterday that the peak of the
season would be reached in a
week or more, but that some
picking has already started.
The two most widely known
patches, and those easiest to get
to by conventional automobile,
are Huckleberry mountain and
the Umpqua divide near Abbott
Butte.
Data Available
First hand information on con
ditions of trie berries and roads
to them can be obtained from the
Union Creek ranger station.
Huckleberry mountain can be
reached by taking the Crater
Lake highway, (62), and turning
right about eight miles north of
Union Creek. A forestoad leads
At Least 19 Crew
Members Killed; 10
Others Are Injured
Accident Blamed on
Thrown Switch
Springer, N. M. (US') The
Santa Fe railroad's speeding
streamliner, the Chief, rammed
head-on into a waiting mail ex
press train on a siding near here
early today killing at least 19
persons and injuring 10 others.
All of the dead were train
crew personnel, including the
engineers of both trains and the
fireman and conductor of the
Chief.
The injured included three
train crew personnel and seven
passengers. All of the latter suf
fered only minor injuries and
were released after first aid
treatment at a hospital.
Railroad officials at Las Ve
gas, N.M., and Amarillo, Tex.,
blamed the accident on a switch
thrown in error apparently by a
member of the train crew of the
waiting mail express train which
sent the streamliner hurtling off
the main line at 3:10 a.m. PDT
and onto the siding.
Locomotives Shattered
Investigations into the wreck
were launched by the FBI at Al
buquerque, the state Corpora
tion Commission and the railroad
itself. But Anderson said there
probably was no sabotage.
The grinding collision shat
tered the two locomotives and
three of the forward cars of the
streamliner, including a dormi
tory car, where 15 of the victims
were killed, and two Pullman
cars.
The impact broke the Chief's
locomotive and the two forward
units of the other locomotive,
both of which were diescls, into
bits, and demolished the dormi
tory, baggage, and two forward
Pullman cars of the streamliner.
The fifth and sixth cars of the
Chief, which normally totals 13
cars, were derailed but left
standing upright alongside the
tracks. None of the cars behind
the mail express train's locomo
tive, one of them carrying the
assistant to the president of the
railroad, was derailed.
Victims Sleeping
The dormitory car In which
most of the victims were sleep
ing at the time of the collision
was buried beneath the wreck
age of two others and removal
of the bodies was delayed until
derricks and wrecking equip
ment could be brought here.
A long segment of the siding1
and about 75 yards of the main
line were torn up. . . .
The collision occurred about
five miles south of here at a sid
ing known as Robinson.
The injured were taken to the
Colfax General Hospital here.
The uninjured were brought to
the Brown Hotel where many
were put up in rooms and the
remainder waited in the lobby.
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Commission Denies
Copco Application
Klamath Falls (U.R) The
California Public Utilities com
mission has denied an applica
tion by the California - Oregon
Power company for a reduction
on agricultural pumping rates in
Butte Valley and the Tuleiake
basin in northern California.
The commission contended
that the proposed rates would be
unjustly discriminatory.
The company had applied for
the lower rates following agree
ment with the Klamath Basin
Waters Users Protective associa
tion to bring off-project pump
ing rates in line with rates
charged on U. S. Bureau of Rec
lamation Klamath project land.
The commission, however, re
affirmed its approval of on
pumping rates as specified in
contracts between the Bureau of
Reclamation and the company
for operation of Link river dam.
Near Ripe
from there to the mountain
about eight miles beyond. The
Huckleberry Camp Ground there
has some 20 camp sites.
Directions Given
To get to Abbott Butte, pick
ers should turn left off Crater
Lake highway about nine miles
north of Prospect on the Wood
ruff creek road. All roads have
signs at the junctions.
A third berry patch is situat
ed near Butte Falls towards the
Blue Rock lookout in the Gypsy
Spring area. However, the for
est service warned that the last,
two miles of the road are quite
rough and nearly impassable to
conventional vehicles.
The forest service reminded
berry pickers that the wooded
areas near the picking grounds
have received no fall rains and
fire conditions remain hazard
ous. All persons entering them
are asked to use caution.
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