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.
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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
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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.
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.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. '
They were accompanied by
Harold Dahlen, director of ad
ministrative service, of the area
office in San Francisco.
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Anthony Eden Refuses
Financial Aid Offers
Boston (U.R) Sir Anthony
Eden, recuperating from a bile
duct operation at the New Eng
land Baptist hospital here, po
litely refused offers of financial
aid to help pay for his surgery.
In a statement issued Wednes
day through British Consul Gen
eral Robert H. K. Marett, Eden
said he was "most grateful for
the various offers made by
friends in both the United King
dom and in the United States"
to raise funds for his medical
expenses.
While deeply touched by this
kindness, he, Eden wishes it to
known that he does not desire
any such collection to be made
on his behalf.
Eden's medical expenses have
been estimated at between
S7.000 and $8,400. It is believed
that Eden's sole source of in
come from government now is a
pension of about $5,570.
Eisenhower Calls for
Holy Week Sacrifice
Washington U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower has called for
"unceasing sacrifice and pray
er" during Holy Week.
The President sent a special
Easter message to his own
pastor,, the Rev. E. L. R. Elson,
chairman of the Good Friday
Observance Committee and
pastor of the National Presby
terian church.
Eisenhower wrote that the
"price of peace, our ultimate ob
jective, is unceasing sacrifice
and prayer."
"When our Christian citizens
think on these things, they will
be sobered by a realistic ap
praisal of the needs of courage
and strengthened by a new ap
preciation of the spiritual re
sources available to us all."
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