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1 r n Explosiv LOG TRUCK A load of logs rolled off an overturned truck and trailer (foreground above) and into the front of a county owned dump truck at 10 a.m. on the Butte Falls road yesterday. State police said the log truck, driven by Leroy Vernon Fellows, 6990 Gilman rd., went out of control on a iharp curve, swung to the left lane of traffic, and turned over when Fellows tried to steer Porter Hits Ellsworth, IVIcKay For Stands on Al Sarena Case Charles O. Porter, Eugene at torney and Democratic candidate for congressman from the fourth district, told the Medford Cen tral Labor council last night that if he is elected, "citizens will have for the first time in 14 years a man who represents all the people." Porter rebuked his opponent. Congressman Harris Ellsworth, for statements on Al Sarena and on several bills that came up during the 84th congress, at a speech Ellsworth made to the Medford Kiwanis club Aug. 29. Charges McKay The candidate charged the de partment of interior, under Sec retary McKay, with following "unprecedented procedures' in granting mining patents to the McDonald brothers of Al Sarena mines. The basic question in the Al Sarena ease. Porter pointed out, is-whether or not the claims assayed showed sufficient min eral izn tion. Porter stated that Clarence Davis, then the department's sol icitor, was wrong in following the "dubious" assay reports of the A. W. Williams Inspection company in Mobile, Ala., with out conferring with other assay ers who had measured the min eral value of Al Sarena mines. T1U Values According to records of the Anncs Engineering company in Grants Pass and the Abbott Hanks Assay office in San Fran cisco, he said, assays of the 15 disputed Al Sarena claims show ed none of the claims recorded better than "trace" mineraliza tion. Porter added that the Bur eau of Mines at Albany valued some of the claims "slightly higher.' He declared that the McDonald brothers sent minerals to be as sayed to the Williams company because they had a charge ac count there. Mobile. Ala., is also their home town, he stated. Ac cording to EHsworth, Porter said, the patents were granted by law. Porter said this was not true because the other assayers had never been checked by Da via for more complete figures. He stated that Ellsworth also will not debate the Al Sarena is sue. Porter commented that two million board 'feet of timber have been sold by the McDonald brothers, for a profit of $24,000. He added that they have offer ed the balance of timber there for sale for S300.000. The value Eleven Marines Caught by Freak Currents Naha. Okinawa (U.R) Eleven U.S. Marines who went swim ming in apparently calm water were drowned Wednesday when caught up by freak ocean cur rents. Marine headquarters an nounced today. Twelve other Marines were saved when other men in the area came to their rescue. The Marines, wno had engaged in field problems throughout the dav. entered the water to cool off. They had been given instruc tions a few moments before by their company commander on safety precautions. But a freak current hit them and swept them out to sea. Brig. Gen. Victor H. Krulak. commanding general of the 3rd of the timber does not matter, he declared; what is important is that "the timber belongs to all of us." 'Smok-Scrn The most important implica tion of the Al Sarena patents, according to the candidate, is that the Eisenhower administra tion has condoned the "give away." which could start a dan gerous precedent. Porter accus sed McKay and Ellsworth of throwing a "smoke - screen" around the issue by charging that the pictures he has been showing during his campaign do not show where timber has been cut. This is "irrelevant.'' he claimed, when all that matters was if the tim ber had been cut. Porter stated that according to the Rosrburg News-Review, the McDonald brothers were quoted as saying the timber was need ed for mine construction. If this were true, he said, no patents would be necessary as it would have been automatically legal for the McDonald brothers to have cut all the timber they need ed, as long as it was for mine development. Even as the Mc Donald brothers were saying this, according to Porter, timber was being shipped from Al Sarena mines to Medford. No Mot 'Al Sartnai In a recent conversation with Secretary of Interior Fred Seat on. Porter said the secretary in dicated to him there will be no more "Al Sarenas" and that he was anxious to have the matter forgotten. Driver Jumps to Safety As Truck Leaves Road Kent L. Clark. 1215 West 10th st.. jumped to safety yesterday afternoon when his loaded log truck and trailer lost its brake air pressure and went over the bank on Highway 99 south of Ashland. State police said the accident occurred seven miles south of Ashland on the highway over the Siskiyous at 1:45 p.m. Clark, driving north, report edly rode the truck as far as he could with the brake pressure gone, then jumped. The truck, trailer and load went over the left bank and travelled 120 yards into the canyon. The dri ver suffered back abrasions and 1 was treated and released at a I local hospital, state police said. Drown When Marine Division, ordered an ex tensive land, sea and air search for the missing men. "Before the men were waist deep in the water they were in trouble," eyewitnesses said. "They were knocked from their feet by a vicious undercurrent and tumbled seaward." Capt. Jack Westerman, com manding officer of Company F. 2nd Battalion. 9th Marines, im mediately called off . swimming activities and formed a human chain to aid bathers to reach the beach. Persons familiar with the ac tion of ocean currents during typhoons attributed the unprece dented currents to typhoon Emma, a new typhoon reported south oi Okinawa only today. ' m it back to the right side. The logs broke loose from the trailer and tumbled into the front of a county dump truck coming the other way, operated by Robert Lee Harnish, route 1, box 369-G, Medford. Both trucks received extensive damage but neither driver was hurt. Picture was taken by Glenn Pructt, Eagle Point. 1 In discussing his opponent. Porter stated that Ellsworth has no argument at all on the basis of his own record. He gave as an example the federal aid to edu cation bill. According to Ells worth, Porter commented, he claims to have supported Eisen hower on the Kellcy bill for fed eral aid to education. However, he added. Ellsworth opposed Eisenhower and voted for the Powell amendment which he called the "kiss of death" for the bill. Ellsworth then voted for the Kellcy bill. Porter declared. He added that this was the only time in his opinion on 19 crucial votes- that Ellsworth had voted "right," and then only after he had "knifed the bill in the back." Porter also charged that Eisen hower failed to pressure Repub licans to pass the Kellcy bill as he had in pressuring them to pass the highway bill. Porter said that his biggest problem in defeating Ellsworth is one of communication. He said labor has much at stake in the November elections and that the fourth district voters do not .know his opponent's record. Ellsworth will not campaign con cretely, according to the- Demo cratic candidate, because his rec ord is not defensible. In citing instances where Ells worth had supported what Port er called "anti-general welfare legislation," he said that Ells worth was a proponent of the "right-to-work bill." If this bill were enacted. Porter declared it would be the end of effective la bor unions. Blames Ellsworth He also blamed Ellsworth for being partly responsible for the failure of the house rules com mittee to submit to the floor of the house of representatives for a vote the public housing bill. "The fact that Ellsworth exists in congress." Porter stated, "is a danger to every man and wo man in Oregon." The "big thing" in Oregon politics this year, he said, is the Morse-McKay senate race. Por ter predicted that Republican "smears" to be aimed at Morse this fall will be unprecedented. He added that Morse s "liberal" voting record in congress is just the opposite of Ellsworth's. Robert Duncan, Democratic candidate for state representa tive from this district, also ap peared at the labor meeting. Duncan said he wanted to urge citizens to write-in William Mc Allister's name as justice to the state supreme court Nov. 6. Police Continue Search for Convicts Eugene (U P.' State police said today they had no good leads in their search for two fleeing California convicts, be lieved to be in this area. Officers continued to check out numerous reports of suspic ious persons but said that so far no substantial clues had been uncovered in the hunt for two fugitives believed to have fled here in a stolen garbage truck last week end from Myrtle Creek. The convicts were two of a group of four that fled the Happy Camp forest camp near Yreka, Calif., last week and landed at Medford in a stolen plane. 51st Year Medford. United Press Full Leased Wire 24 Pages IRE DA1A Anthony Eden Calls Parliament From Summer Vacation Special Session Will Consider Suez Canal London (U.R) Prime Minis ter Anthony Eden today recalled Parliament from its summer re cess to an emergency session next Wednesday in a clear indi cation Britain wants a settle ment of the Suez Canal dispute within the week. The only major issue before the special session of Parliament would be the use of the big Anglo -French expeditionary force now building up in the Eastern Mediterranean, if there is no settlement. Eden and his Cabinet, includ ing the Army, Navy and Air ministers, made the decision to recall parliament from its 212 month summer vacation during an extraordinary meting at Downing Street this morning. First Lord Attends The new first lord of the ad miralty. Lord Hailsham, attend ed the Cabinet session. His pres ence indicated a possible tough policy. Before he took office last Sunday he had written that the canal users "have the means to impose their will on (Egyptian President Gamal Abdel) Nasser and it must be done." There was no longer any se rious doubt that Britain was girding for military action in the Suez dispute if Nasser finally re jects the results of the London conference on Suez. Eighteen of the nations at that parley backed TrpT3TTcrry' Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles for international control of the canal. This group set up a five power committee headed by Australian Prime Minister Rob ert Gordon Menzies which is now in Cairo discussing the pro posal with Nasser. The Egyptian President has rejected the Dulles plan, as he has said all along he would, and offered a counter-proposal which would set up an international advisory body closely linked with the United Nations to run the Suez. Gardiner Forest Fire Covers 1,000 Acres By UNITED PRESS The "most dangerous" forest fire of the year in Oregon threat ened timberlands along the Smith river east of Gardiner to day as low humidities and dry weather continued to pose a hazard. Guy Johnson. U.S. Forest Service dispatcher, said the blaze had covered an estimated 700 to 1,000 acres and was in rugged terrain where it was dif ficult to fight. The Smith river country, north of the Umpqua river, has been the scene of huge forest fires in the past. Some 200 men were on the fire lines. Logging operations through out much of western Oregon shut down because of the fire hazard. A fire started late yesterday afternoon in the Quartz creek area about 20 miles northwest of Grants Pass burned over about 35 acres of slash and tim ber before a crew of 80 men could control it. 20 Men Dispatched A small fire broke out yester day in the vicinity of the head waters of the coast fork of the Willamette river. A crew of Weather FORECAST: Variable hltrh cloudiness tonight. Consider ihlf cloudiness Fridav with chance of afternoon or eve nine thunderstorms over mountains. Low tonight 52. High Friday 85. Temp. Hlrhest Yesterday 95 Lowest this Morning 52 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:4? a.m. Sunset 6:31 p.m. , 7:25 p.m. Moon set nisi yi"i . or ft,. MARS tonirht is at the noint on Sept. 11 its orbit nearest the Karth and U only 35.220.000 miles away. It now" rises five minutes earlier each night and will soon be visible rleht after sunset. IV MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, Meanwhile, Back Two New Directors Named in Fire District Central Point Directors of the Central Point Rural Fire Protection district last night ap pointed Sam Taylor and Harold Gebhardt to fill vacanci-js on the board of directors caused by the recent resignations of Dave De Armond and Larry Hull. Taylor and Gebhardt will serve until the district's next regular election Dec. "3. At that time directors will be elected to complete the two unexpired terms. One year remains in Hull's term and three years in DeArmond's term. Taylor, who is affiliated with the Elk Lum ber company and supervises its fire department, succeeds De Armond. Gebhardt, a Central Point farmer and master of the Central Point Granee. who has attended several CPRFPD meet ings, succeeds Hull. Resignations Accepted The board formally accepted the resignations submitted two about 20 men were dispatched to the blaze, about 20 miles southeast of Cottage Grove, and today had the fire under control. Two homes in the little com munity of Franklin southwest of Junction City were leveled yesterday afternoon. Flames broke out in the home of F. Schulte and soon spread to the neighboring residence of John Richardson., A 40,0-acre blaze 12 miles south of Coquille river and an other 40-acre fire at Bridge on the Myrtle Point-Roseburg high way were both reported as un der control today. A number of grass fires were reported throughout the state but none resulted in serious damage or remained out of con trol today. Two fires in the Mt. Hood national forest were reported under control today. Crews Start Mop-Up After 40-Acre Blaze State forestry department and mill crews were mopping up to day on forest fire which swept over an estimated 40 acres in the Grave creek area of Jose phine county. Patrolmen said the blaze start ed about 3 p.m. yesterday from a power saw on the E. D. Nelson logging operation for Bates Lumber company. The mill shut down in order that its employees could join forestry department' patrolmen in fighting the blaze. The fire was brought under control about midnight. Considerable smoke hanging over the Rogue valley this morn ing was mill, burner smoke held in the area by weather condi tions, the weather bureau re ported. No fires were listed in Jackson county. SEPTEMBER 6, 1956 ATERFRONT At The Ranch weeks ago by DeArmond and Hull. They were among several men including Fire Chief Rich ard Krupp, to leave the depart ment in recent weeks in protest against policies of Bert Smith board chairman. Members of the department have asked Smith to resign on several occasions, but he has de clined. About two weeks ago, a group, of district residents. eluding several former members of the department who attended last night's meeting, began cir culating a petition to recall the chairman. In an informal discus sion after the meetingg, the peti tioners decided to halt recall ac tion, at least temporarily. Two years remain in Smith's five-year term. New Volunteers L. C. Lisenbee, recently ap pointed fire chief, reported three new volunteers have jointed the department, Glenn Higinbotham, James Higinbotham and Frank Scott. It was stated that the vol unteer department is near full strength and has been "ade quate" at all times, despite res ignations of several firemen. The fire chief said 25 alarms were received last month, with grass fires and one bad dwelling blaze accounting for most of the calls. Five driHs weie held with an average turn-out of 11 men. Average turn-out for fires has been seven volunteers, except for grass fires which paid firemen have been able to extinguish. Ten fire permits were issued be tween Aug. 25 and Sept. 1. At the close of last night's ses sion. Smith commented that op erations of the department are currently more harmonious than they have been for some time. He added that he is "well satis fied" with the firemen and has received "only favorable com ment" for them from taxpayers of the district. . Government Reports Price Support Losses Washington (U.R) The Ag riculture Department reported Wednesday the government lost S974.767,365 on price support operations in fiscal 1956. The loss for the previous fiscal year was S799.061.464 Tonight Earthlings Now Living Will Be As Close By DELOS SMITH United Press Science Editor New York (U.R) Tonight .you and all other Earthlings now living will be as close to Mars as you'll ever get, unless science manages somehow to set up a passenger service and you have the nerve to take the trip. Tonight our Earth and its sister of the heavens will move to within 35,120,000 miles of one another. No matter what vou may think that's close. There are times' when those two gyrating planets are 235 million miles apart. Price 10c EffiUNE United Press Full Leased Wi No. 143 Wind Fed Flames Sweep Four Firms, Houses in Portland Firemen Probe Rubble; Threatens Other Area Portland (U.R) Firemen said today that damage from one of Portland's worst waterfront fires may run as high as two million dollars. The east-wind fed general alarm blaze erupted shortly be fore noon yesterday into a huge wall of flame that swept through four waterfront firms and spread into four homes and an old ferry boat. Fire Marshal Dale Gilman said it would be some time be fore an accurate estimate of dam age was made. Firemen today probed smouldering rubble to try to learn the cause. For a time there was fear that the flames would shoot up a brushy hillside into residential areas. One home, high on the west hills, caught fire and blazed brightly as flames con sumed its roof. The fire resulted in calling out of some 700 firemen. It threw an estimated 300 men out of work. It was out of control for about four hours. There were no major casual ties, although several firemen were overcome and suffered minor injuries. Properties razed by the water front fire included: Barde Steel Company ware house with loss estimated at $250,000 to 300,000: Alaska Junk Company warehouse with loss estimated at $250,000; Zidell Machinery and Supply Company ship-wrecking plant, with loss possibly running to $75,000; Job bers Supply Company, no esti mate of loss. Firemen managed to save the Miller Products Company. chemical manufacturer. They said chemicals in the plant held vast destructive properties if fire had reached them. Flames also consumed four residences and spread into the 231-foot ferry Malahat which had been brought to the Zidell dock Tuesday to be scrapped. She formerly was on the Seattle Bremerton run. A barge also was razed. Two vessels were towed to safety. Five firemen were hospital ized, two from smoke poison ing; one from a leg injury, one from a back injury and the other with an injured eye. Ruotolo Baby Is Found in Lake Hamden, Conn. ftl.R) The body of kidnaped six-weeks-old Cynthia Ruotolo was found to day in a weighted potato sack by three boys fishing in Lake Whitney, a public reservoir. The body was identified at G r a c e-New Haven hospital by Stephen Ruotolo, the father. Ruotolo went to the hospital with investigators after he and his wife were taken to the state's attorney's office when word of the discovery became known. After seeing the child, Ruotolo conferred with Asst. state's Atty. Arthur T. Gorman who said that "we're definitely satisfied the body is that of Cynthia Ruotolo." Cynthia, six weeks old, was kidnaped from her carriage in a local department store last Sat urday while her mother, Mrs. Stephen Ruotolo, was in another l section of the store. to Mars As They'll Get It's possible for them to get as close as 33,833,000 miles. According to astronomical mathematicians, they won't be that close until the year 278, 254 which is 276,298 years from now. You can see, it's a tremen dous event for professional astronomers. They've organized them selves into the International Mai 3 Committee in order to take every scientific advan tage, and in 17 observatories in 10 countries they're en gaged in a minutely coordin ated effort. But, actually, they don't ex Troops Escort 11 Negroes to School; Arrests Are Made Cross Burns in Texas Junior College Town Sturgis. Ky. (U.R) National Guard troops with drawn bayo nets pushed their way through an angry mob of 750 persons to escort 11 Negro pupils into Stur- . gis High school today. Officials termed the enforced integration situation explosive. Several members of the crowd were arrested when they at tempted to stop guardsmen from escorting the Negro children into the formerly all-white high school. A few white persons also were knocked down in the melee as they lunged at the guardsmen. Leav School Many of the white pupils at the small high school, who con tinued to attend classes during the demonstrations earlier this week, left the school after to day's disturbance. The Negro- children filed In side the school and began regis tering for classes. The crowd showed no signs of dispersing and continued milling about the grounds, booing the guardsmen stationed closely to gether around the building. Tanks from the 240th Tank Unit were stationed at each end of the school. Kentucky Adj. Gen. J. J. B. Williams directed the operation. Several units of State Police from nearby cities also helped keep order. Fiery Cross Elsewhere a fiery cross burned for half an hour Wednesday night on the campus of the Junior college at Texarkana, Tex., in the newest protest against racial integration. Unkonwn persons set fire to the six-foot high cross only hours after two Negro coeds were per mitted to enroll at the college. The registration of Jessalyn Yvonne Gray, 18, and Laure Ellis, 17. was accomplished with out incident and Dean W. D. Akin said they will be allowed to start classes next Monday with 1,000 white students. Texarkana police arrived shortly before midnight but the cross had burned itself out. An investigation was ordered. All was quiet in another trou bled Texas town. Mansfield, where mob action prevented Ne groes from attending a school which a federal court had or dered integrated. Demos to Sponsor Party This Evening A committee of Jackson Coun ty Young Democrats will knock on doors in several downtown precincts early this evening and invite residents to a "Registered Roundup" party and open house at 8 p.m. today at Democratic headquarters at the Esquire the ater on East Main st. Registrars will be present to register anyone regardless o party affiliation. The party is open to the public, according to Clyde Fichtner, president of the Jackson County Democratic So cial club, the sponsoring group. On the program will be brief candidate appearances and a va riety show, including a commu nity sing. Appearing in the show will be Patsy and Diane Ryan, young western singers who have won two talent shows and re cently returned from a two weeks' engagement at Amatos Portland; Lenore Zapell, Thayer and Charlene Tarvin in a musical review song and sketch presentation with Ray Lewis at the piano; Frances Thrun, so prano soloist, and a stage group with a mystery act. Attorney Russell DeForest will be master of ceremonies. Refreshments will be served by members of the social club, under direction of Mrs. W. G. Werner, Mrs. George Watson, Mrs. E. B. Dameron, headquar ters chairman. Miss Kay Carrara, Mrs. Thomas Higguis and Miss Margaret McGee. pect to learn anything which will startle or even bemuse the man in the street although they will add greatly to science's knowledge, if all goes well. They already know for sure that there are no crea tures of any kind on Mars. Probably there is life on Mars, but only very simple plant life. The astronomers hope to garner a few more de tails about it, in order to sur mise better whether life is in a beginning stage there as it was on Earth. And they have countless technical questions concerning the Martian atmos phere and the Martian seasons.
