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Diver Tries Again To Locate Bodies On Sunken Barge New Orleans (U.P) A skin diver tried again today to reach six men entombed in cramped sleeping quarters of a capsized oil drilling barge. Authorities ex pressed little hope of finding the victims alive. Towering ground swells foiled repeated attempts of diver Don Inman to reach the submerged deck of the floodlighted "Mister K" with his rubber suit and aqua lung before he abandoned the effort shortly before midnight. Three crewmen were believed to have drowned immediately when the bare carrying a 100 foot drilling rig on its deck sud denly turned turtle during a storm before noon Wednesday in the mouth of the Mississippi river. Sax Surviv Ordeal Six others were saved, five of them without injury. One was hospitalized. Inman decided "raps' that ap ared to come earler from in side the hull "were just imag ination" and not signals from survivors as previously believed. Inman said no divers could poach the barge in Wednesday Bight's heavy weather. "Every time I got near the barge I was washed away by the current," he said. The Coast Guard finally fixed warning lights on the hull and abandoned it until daybreak.. Some 30 relatives and friends Oi the missing crewmen main- . tained a nightlong-vigil at rescue (headquarters m Venice, La about 30 miles from the scene. The nearly new derrick barge, o valued at $1,250,000, was being "tewed out of the storm-tossed Gulf of Mexico into the calmer mouth of the Mississippi when it wadenly turned bottom up. The survivors said they had Jtittle time to get out, it all hap- tened so fast, aw Two Diown "I was in the pump room," M. E. Flowers of Houston, Tex., said. "We went over and I got out, but I was swept out 100 feet That may have saved me. I can only swim a little. " Flowers said he saw two of his shipmates floundering and. "I don t think they were picked up." Plez Ballard of Buras, La., said he saw three fellow work men drown. He identified them as W. J. Davis, 42, Silver Creek, Miss.; James Harvey Jr., Jayess, Miss.; and Lewis Hightower, also of Jayess. POLICE THAVEL East Detroit, Mich. (U.R) Po lice Chief Lyman Eckhardt said this community s scout cars traveled 262,475 miles in 1956 or about 10 times around the world. Gold Hill Garden Club Schedules Meeting Gold Hill The Gold Hill Gar den club will meet at the home of Mrs. Frank Carter on the Up per River rd., Friday, April 19, at 1 p.m. Mrs. William Fields, president, will be cohostess. Mrs. Ernest Gregory and Mrs. Roy Cameron will be in charge of the program. 4-Year Terms for Representatives Beaten in House Salem U.R) A move to make representatives in the Ore gon House elective for four year terms instead of two. failed in the Oregon Senate by a 15-15 vote late Wednesday, but Sen. Jean Lewis, Portland Democrat, served notice she would move for reconsideration. The arguments of those in favor of Senate bill 300 was that it would mean that at least half the members of the House in each legislative session would have had experience, as they now do in the Senate whose members are elected for four years. Those who argued against' it expressed belief that the House in Oregon, like the House in Congress, should continue to be accountable to the voters every two years. Republicans and Democrats were about evenly split on both sides. , Vota Reconsidered A bill directing the governor to remove from office any pub lic official under indictment wound up back in the hands of the Multnomah county delega tion. At t first the Senate voted 15-14 along party lines Repub licans favoring and Democrats against to take the bill from the delegation to assign to an other committee. Republicans later moved for reconsideration after learning that Sen. Andrew Naterlin, Newport Democrat, had been ex cused to attend a funeral. Sen. Warren Gill said the Republi cans did not want to take ad vantage of the situation and wanted the bill brought back to the Multnomah county dele gation until a motion could be made to recall it when no sen ators were excused. The Multno mah delegation earlier had tabled the bill. The Senate voted unanimous ly in favor of House bill 297, which would appropriate up to $100,000 as Oregon's share in a cooperative survey with ' the state of Washington of the feasi bility of a bridge across the Columbia river from Astoria to Megler. . Suggestion for Amendment To School Bill Made Salem (U.R) A suggestion was made Wednesday night that the so - called "key district" school bill be amended so that no district would receive less money from the state than it is getting in the present fiscal year. The Portland school board made the proposal at a House Education committee meeting. It also proposed that no district in' Oregon get less than 35 per cent of its basic education costs from the state funds. . Portland Sees Loss Portland officials claim they would lose about $4 million a year in state money if the mea sure which passed the Senate becomes law. The bill would change the formula for distribu ting school support funds. The House committee is con sidering possible amendments to the measure. Vic Dougherty, chief statistic ian of the Portland school board said the amendment to provide districts with as much stote money as received in the 1956- 57 fiscal year would allow rich er districts to come under the key district distribution without as much disruption of the school program. Teenage Road-e-o Slated by Jaycees Central Point The Teen Age Road-e-o for Eagle Point and Central Point teenagers will be held at Crater High school, start ing at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 20. The contest, including both written and driving tests, is sponsored by the Central Point Junior Chamber of Commerce. Similar community level con tests are being held throughout the United States in April and May under sponsorship of Jay cee organizations. Winner of the Saturday contest will compete in the state contest, and the state winner will enter the national contest. The three winners of the national contest will receive scholarships totaling $4,500 and an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D. C. Contestants in the community level Teen Age Road-e-o will be required to complete a written test and to drive in a four-obstacle type exercise. A road check for in-traffic performance will be added for the state con test. , The national contest will in clude a written test, a perform ance and driver attitude scale as well as a psycho-physical exam ination and a personal interview. M 117 So. Central Phone 2-6241 Open: 9:30 to 5:30 Wednesdays 9:30 to 9 Misses Toppers and Dusters TOPPERS SILKEN WOOL Reg. 16.98... 13.88 Reg. 19.98... 16.88 DUSTERS RAYON FAILLE Reg. 11. 98 9.88 Reg. 14.98... 12.88 Reg. 19.98... 16.88 Lake County Man Gets Game Post Salem vU.R) Rancher Ralph Ralph W. Renner, active Lake and Klamath county sportsman, was named late Wednesday to the State Game Commission by Gov. Robert D. Holmes. With the appointment of Ren ner, who operates 27,000 acres of ranch and farm land in the two counties, Gov. Holmes with drew his appointment of M. E. Norton of Phoenix for the com mission post. The law calling for two mem bers of the commission to be residents of Eastern Oregon made Norton ineligible to serve. The new commissioner, who succeeds the late Elmer Balsiger of Klamath Falls, is a native of nearby Modoc county, Calif. He is an active angler, hunter and conservationist and has been an Oregon cattleman, sheepman, timberman and rancher for 18 years. Appointment of Norton was blocked by a law requiring at least two members of the five man commission to be from east of the Cascades and two from the west. The fifth member rep resents the state at large. Night News Editor At Montreal Succumbs Montreal U.R) Funeral serv ices will be held Saturday for Paul McCaffery, 29, night news editor of the United Press in Montreal. McCaffery died of a heart at tack Wednesday at his home. Thursday. April 18. 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREB Cairo Reaffirms Israel Ship Ban Cairo (U.R) The state con trolled Cairo Radio said today there will be no international ization of Suez Canal navigation control and reaffirmed Egypt's decision to bar Israeli shipping. . The broadcast said internation alization would be "an infringe ment of Egypt's soverignty over Egyptian territorial waters." , As for Israel, it said, "Israel is at war with Egypt and there fore its ships shall not transit the canal." Diplomatic sources said the talks between U. S. Ambassador Raymond Hare and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Faw zi were making some progress, if slow progress, on points of de tail and that there may be some changes. , The independent weekly news paper Akher Saa also warned that if Arab nationalism enters in a direct showdown with the United States it would be diffi cult for Egypt to maintain neu trality towards Russia. OTI Students Tour Rogue Valley Firms Twenty-six students from Ore gon Technical Institute, Klam ath Falls, arrived in Medford this morning for a tour of air conditioning and perishable fruit storage installations in the Rogue Valley. The students, who will grad uate June 2, started their toar at the Modern Plumbing and Sheet Metal company's office here. They are accompanied by Raymond Woods, instructor and Ralph Fuller, assistant instruc tor. Among plants scheduled to be visited are the Myron Root com pany, Nye and Naumes, South ern Oregon Sales, Associated Fruit company, Medford branch of the First National Bank of Portland, and the United States National bank's Ashland branch. Host for the group is Paul Larsen of the Modern Plumbing and Sheet Metal company. Assisting on the tour was Al Ien Welch, representing the Carrier corporation through Western Engineers, Inc., Port land, and Harry Goold, manager of the air conditioning and re frigeration department of Mod ern Plumbing. The group had lunch at the Medford hotel. Holmes, Knight Sign Klamath River Pact Salem IU.R) Gov. Robert D. Holmes of Oregon and Gov. Goodwin Knight of California simultaneously signed the Klam ath Basin compact at 2:30 p.tn. Wednesday. The two states have been ne gotiating nearly four years through their Klamath River Commissions to complete the water use plan. The compact effects primarily the Upper Klamath River Basin on both sides of the border and gives upstream irrigation needs priority over downstream navi gation and power use. Heavy Fog, Rain Blanket Midwest By UNITED PRESS Heavy fog and light rain blanketed much of the midwest Wednesday night and early to day, closing airports, slowing traffic and touching off a plane-in-distress alarm. . Thick fog shrouded most of the Great Lakes region and ex tended into portions of the Ohio and central Mississippi valleys Airports closed Wednesday night by the fog included those in Chicago and the surrounding area, Detroit and Jackson, Mich., and Toledo, Ohio. Meanwhile, weathermen is sued a warning of severe thun derstorms of possible tornadoes in southeastern Kansas and ex treme northeastern and north central Oklahoma today. A crippled United Air Lines DC-7 airliner with 58 persons aboard was advised against landing at fog bound Chicago and instead went on to Omaha, Neb., where it made a safe em ergency landing. Rain was widespread during the night and light snow powder ed western North Dakota. The rain belt extended from the Gulf coast along the mid Mississippi and Ohio valleys and the east coast. Showers also were reported in eastern Colo rado, Kansas and from Califor nia and Nevada through Wash-; ington and western Montana. Forecasters said rain will over-spread most of the nation ; today, with the only dry spot expected to be Florida, northern New England. and the far northwest. Old-Timers Recall Earthquake in S. F. San Francisco 4J.R) A' thin ning group of old-timers met to day to recall the morning 51 years ago when an earthquake jolted San Francisco, touching i off a fire that destroyed most j of the city. The major observance ' was ; the lunch meeting of the 1906 ! Club, with attorney John P. Doran presiding. The program included a special tribute to East Bay cities for the aid they gave to San Francisco. i'A group known as the South of Market Boys laid a wreath at Lotta's Fountain at a down town intersection at 5:13 a.m., the exact hour at which the earth trembled on April 18, 1906. Oldsters who recalled the 1906 earthquake said the one of last March 22 which rocked the southwestern part oi the city could not even be compared. Home Grown Easter LILIES Choose from Hundreds! FREE S&H Green Stamps Delivery Rogue Valley Greenhouse 625 Franquette Phone 2-9384 VA Officials Tour Camp White Facility .Camp White Two Veterans Administration central office of ficials toured the Camp White domiciliary Wednesday' before, going to Portland for confer ences this week. William McCoy, director of the medical administrative serv ice, and Robert Wise, budget service official, stopped over en route from Washington, D. C, for the tour. 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